The woman hanging from the 13th floor window on the east side of Chicago is not alone...She is all the women of the apartment building who stand watching her, watching themselves.

I was born with eyes that can never close.

Remember that you are this universe and that this universe is you.

I believe that poets have to be inside their poems somewhere, or the poem won't work.

I've always had a theory that some of us are born with nerve endings longer than our bodies

There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.

My generation is now the door to memory. That is why I am remembering.