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

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

I have been eating poetry.

Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.

A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.

Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep.

It hardly seems worthwhile to point out the shortsightedness of those practitioners who would have us believe that the form of the poem is merely its shape.