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

I think a lot of the guys I know and a lot of people I've talked to, what they want is very often what most people want, a kind of simple life, a livelihood, a family, people who care about them, people they can care about. I think vets on the whole want the same things that everybody else does.

Michael Koryta's THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is an absolutely thrilling read. I read most of it with my breath held, occasionally exhaling to ask myself, 'What will happen next?' I highly recommend it.

I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.

Freedom is not the same as lack of accountability.

To understand the world, one’s place in it, is to be always at the risk of drowning.

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.