I spend a lot of time revising. I'm not somebody who can move slowly.

Our mind is dark in some way, and so we use rhetoric as a kind of prop or foil.

I can't move my body slowly. I can't move the line slowly. So I end up with way too much, often opaque to me later.

A number of poems don't work alone. They need to fit together to work.

Looking out a window from different vantage points changes what you see and therefore what you write.

Even your own memory changes over time because of circumstances or even because your body changes.

I'm in California, so I know people who are natives who tell me there's lots of weather here, but it's not the same as being in Vermont. Since I grew up on the East Coast I miss that weather all the time. You'd think I'd get used to not having it, but I don't.