The writing of an assay-type poem or a poem investigating perspective isn't an exercise of rational or strategic mind. Poems for me are acts of small or large desperation. They grapple with surfaces too steep to walk in any other way, yet which have to be traveled.

A poem can use anything to talk about anything.

as some strings, untouched, sound when no one is speaking. So it was when love slipped inside us.

When I write, I don't know what is going to emerge. I begin in a condition of complete unknowing, an utter nakedness of concept or goal. A word appears, another word appears, an image. It is a moving into mystery.

Poetry's work is the clarification and magnification of being.

I will never become a horse trainer, a biologist, a person competent with a hammer. My loves were my loves.

At some point I realized that you don't get a full human life if you try to cut off one end of it, that you need to agree to the entire experience, to the full spectrum of what happens.