I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

What I heard was my whole self saying and singing what it knew: I can.

When you're really caught up in writing a poem, it can be a form of prayer. I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer. I feel it in different degrees and not with every poem. But in certain ways writing is a form of prayer.

We call it "Nature"; only reluctantly admitting ourselves to be "Nature" too.

I thought I was growing wings— it was a cocoon. I thought, now is the time to step into the fire— it was deep water. Eschatology is a word I learned as a child: the study of Last Things; facing my mirror—no longer young, the news—always of death, the dogs—rising from sleep and clamoring and howling, howling.... ("Seeing For a Moment")

Let me walk through the fields of paper touching with my wand dry stems and stunted butterflies.