From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.

To open the dictionary of the Beyond and discover what one suspected, that the only word in it is nothing.

In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing.

We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention.

And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals, in the journalistic facts of his life.

Even this late it happens: the coming of love, the coming of light.

We all have reasons for moving. I move to keep things whole.