A traitor commits his crime but once. The rest/is retribution.

I am living. I remember you.

Poetry is telling something to someone.

We tell each other stories to help each other live. That’s why I read poetry. I read poetry to stay alive. That’s why I went to poetry in the first place, that’s why I stay with it, that’s why I’ll never leave it.

Each of us suffers with envy/for the forgiven.

Every poem holds the unspeakable inside it. The unsayable... The thing that you can't really say because it's too complicated. It's too complex for us. Every poem has that silence deep in the center of it.

A traitor commits his crime but once. The rest/is retribution.