As a poet who has the tools for interpreting the poem differently, you can begin to deconstruct it. But the human being who's like, "I know about conversation, I know about language, I know about hard times," will approach the poem differently.

Lately, I'd been feeling like I was standing outside watching everything and everybody. Wishing I could take the part of me that was over there and the part of me that was over here and push them together—make myself into one whole person like everybody else.

I don't know how women stop being friends with other women.

I actually don't think of whiteness and heterosexuality as 'the norm'. Maybe there are people who still do but none of them are close friends of mine.

No matter how big you get, it's still okay to cry because everybody's got a right to their own tears.

Seems like every time life starts straightening itself out, something's gotta go and happen.

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