Writing was always an aspiration, but I'd kept it a secret even from myself.

In a lot of ways, the task at hand for any poem is to approach something that defies exactness or definition with a kind of exactness or precision.

All choices are illusions, or if they are not illusions their strength is illusory, for one choice must contend with the choices of all the other men and women deciding anything in that moment.

But I remember being told that the truth does not depend on being believed.

Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.

There is a sharp distinction between what is remembered, what is told and what is true.

There are definitely connections between poems, but I wanted each to stand on its own. I guess it goes back to the idea of trying to zoom in and out, and to modulate, so there are different ways of looking at any experience for the reader. Even having short poems and long poems - there has to be some kind of variation in the experience of reading as a whole.