"And" seems to me closest. "And" nods toward the real. And "and" is the path to perspective. To feel and see from more angles and know all of them true, even the incomprehensible ones, even the ones that contradict one another.

Houses are fundamental metaphors for self, world, permeability, transition, interiority, exteriority, multiplicity, and the power to move from one state of being to another.

Time-awareness does indeed watermark my books and my life.

Poetry's task is to increase the available stock of reality, R P Blackmur said.

The ability to name poetry's gestures and rhetorics isn't required to write or read them, any more than a painter needs to know the physics of color to bring forward a landscape. The eye and hand and ear know what they need to know. Some of us want to know more, because knowing pleases.

You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.

One way poetry connects is across time. . . . Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into us when we read her poem.