When you're a young poet, reading is a search for your lost family.

Every breath is a resurrection.

"Similar but not the same" - that's like the return of the beloved for me. And metamorphosis: the spirit of the beloved moving through things, not lingering long in any one thing or place, no matter how we might wish it.

To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life.

When you're a young poet, reading is a search for your lost family.

I can't actually explain why my lines got shorter, but they did. Just as I can't explain why my early poems were 'all image' and my current ones are relatively abstract. The sense of the line changed with the theme, somehow my ear (or brain or heart/mind) fell in love with a short line and very very simple words.

When it's right you can't say Who is kissing whom.