In a letter (no matter how quickly it is written or honestly or freely or lovingly) it is more possible to be loving and lovable, more possible to reach out and to take in ... I feel I have somehow deceived you into thinking this is really a human relationship. It is a letter relationship between humans.

Suicide is, after all, the opposite of the poem.

Talk to me about sadness. I talk about it too much in my own head but I never mind others talking about it either; I occasionally feel like I tremendously need others to talk about it as well.

She is so naked and singular. She is the sum of yourself and your dream. Climb her like a monument, step after step. She is solid.

I burn the way money burns.

One of my secret instructions to myself as a poet is "Whatever you do, don't be boring."

Somebody who should have been born is gone.