I'm very conscious of the fact that every line should have a cadence to it. It should contribute to the progress of the poem. And that the ending of the line is a way of turning the reader's attention back into the interior of the poem.

Often people, when they're confronted with a poem, it's like someone who keep saying 'what is the meaning of this? What is the meaning of this?' And that dulls us to the other pleasures poetry offers.

One of these days I'm-a make me a book out of you.

All I wanted was to be a pea of being inside the green pod of time.

I sit in the dark and wait for a little flame to appear at the end of my pencil.

I stared up at the ebbing quarter moon and the stars scattered like a handful of salt across the faraway sky.

To write poetry is to be very alone, but you always have the company of your influences. But you also have the company of the form itself, which has a kind of consciousness. I mean, the sonnet will simply tell you, that's too many syllables or that's too many lines or that's the wrong place. So, instead of being alone, you're in dialogue with the form.