Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

There are different gradations of personhood in different poems. Some of them seem far away from me and some up close, and the up-close ones generally don't say what I want them to say. And that's true of the persona in the poem who's lamenting this as a fact of a certain stage of life. But it's also true of me as me.

Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's more scary to draw. It's more revealing. You can't disguise yourself in drawing.

No one will ever make necessity not happen.

A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.

It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.

What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.