A poem should be odd as a small cast-iron platypus.

Go down any road far enough and you'll come to a slaughterhouse, but keep going and you'll reach the sea.

Just because a thing can't be done doesn't mean it can't be did. We all look into mirrors and see phantoms. Our error is our Eros. Why is there something instead of nothing? The answer is reckless and surreal.

You start with a darkness to move through but sometimes the darkness moves through you.

Here is a semi-transparent pebble I picked up on the way to my EKG. Probably worthless but it is my heart so take it.

I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, but now I want a Russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping.

I don't believe in writer's block, writing well is very easy; it's writing horribly, the horrible work necessary to do to get to writing well, that is so difficult one may just not be willing to do it.