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

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

I can't remember the past, or I can't see very clearly, or I've gotten older and the person I was isn't there anymore, and the place I grew up isn't where I live now.

I'm really interested in what you remember, how you remember, what your perspective is as opposed to somebody else's.

Gardens do offer a temporal tableau and certainly mean differently in different eras and indeed geographies (think of the formal gardens in France).

I think those of us who use language are always trying for this, trying to keep everything from floating away by trying to write about it despite failure.

The days start to be charged not because tomorrow you're leaving, but because in three weeks you're leaving. The future impinges. So you start to think about the frame.