If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.

Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.

Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.

You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.

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.

I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things-

Caught between the tongue and the taste.