If I loved someone enough, I would go anywhere in the world with them." —Staggerlee

I've learned a lot as a writer about poetry.

I feel like the world stopped. And I got off...and then it started spinning again, but too fast for me to hop back on. I feel like I'm still trying to get a...to get some kind of foothold on living

I think only once in your life do you find someone that you say, "Hey, this is the person I want to spend the rest of my time on this earth with." And if you miss it, or walk away from it, or even maybe, blink - it's gone.

I think I had gotten messages really young that poetry wasn't for me, that it was for, basically, some dead white men. My experience and my intellect was on the outside of understanding that. I think that's what's so destructive.

I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories.

One place exists as their interpretation of it. For the people living and thriving inside of it, it's another place.