Poetry's work is not simply the recording of inner or outer perception; it makes by words and music new possibilities of perceiving

I'd say that the middle stanza is closer: that's the place where the poem ranges unexpectedly into a different realm.

The nourishment of Cezanne's awkward apples is in the tenderness and alertness they awaken inside us.

Creativity itself is a joyous unlatching. The act of creative imagining, inventing, saying differently, crafting a metaphor or image, then crafting another metaphor or image when you go further or when you revise - all these take whatever you think "is" and make clear that other possibilities exist as well. The sense of possibility, the amplitude and freedom that sense of malleability brings - for me, that cannot help but be joyous.

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

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

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