We do inherently know that poetry is about the way we speak. It's about where we pause, where we drop our words in the middle of a sentence. It's about the rhythm and the cadence of the way we speak. It's about putting that down at the end of the day.

Yes, writing is not easy. But can any writer imagine NOT writing?

When you think of how a child experiences a series of events, it feels, for so long, like she's looking at everything from behind this glass and it's obscured.

You can't always be pushing people away. Someday nobody'll come back.

I love slow readers. And readers who think about what I've written, think about how it's written - and copy me!

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

Sometimes...you have to try to forget people you love just so you can keep living.