Every day is a gift with a child, no matter what problems you have.
The stars are filming us for no one.
How would you prepare to die on a perfect April evening?
I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.
Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.
I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.