Our bodies look solid, but they arent. Were like a fountain. A fountain of water looks solid, but you can put your fingers right through it. Our bodies look like things, but theres no thingness to them.

The lyric self is the self; the narrative self is not.

Our bodies look solid, but they arent. Were like a fountain. A fountain of water looks solid, but you can put your fingers right through it. Our bodies look like things, but theres no thingness to them.

Poetry is the language of extremity. Poetry is a transfer of potency. You feel something potent and then you transfer it onto the page.

Brimming. That's what it is, I want to get to a place where my sentences enact brimming.

Maybe being winged means being wounded by infinity.

In writing poetry, all of one's attention is focused on some inner voice.