To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings.

Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to articulate your life, your present world or your possibilities for the future.

Shyness means you are in the hallway of a greater presence. You just don't know how to take the conversation another step. It's a lovely indication.

I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves.

To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings.

I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science.

Everyone casts a shadow. Everyone has a relationship with the fearful unknown.