Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their families, their histories too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems.

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

At least I've had to come to that in my life, to realize that this stuff called failure, this stuff, this debris of historical trauma, family trauma, you know, stuff that can kill your spirit, is actually raw material to make things with and to build a bridge. You can use those materials to build a bridge over that which would destroy you.

If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned.

My father told me that some voices are so true they can be used as weapons, can maneuver the weather, change time. He said that a voice that powerful can walk away from the singer if it is shamed. After my father left us, I learned that some voices can deceive you. There is a top layer and there is a bottom, and they don't match.

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

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