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.

I thought originally when I was in school and I wanted to be a poet, I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.

You know how sometimes you just have a memory of looking up and seeing a face looking over your crib and then remember nothing until tenth grade? - I have one of these early memories where I'm in the back of my parents' car, a place I loved to spend a lot of time as an only child, not having to fight with venomous siblings over the only toy.

So many names, there is barely room on the walls of the heart.

I could look at you forever and never see the two of us together

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

The trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry.