I know that in some ways I operate from a kind of antiquated interest in imagery, while many contemporary poets are not so interested in imagery. I think part of it is my training, and just my visual sense of things.

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

Each of us is present, but partially.

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 always somehow drawn to that sense of how fragile things are and how a garden means so differently depending upon whose language you happen to be in or whose century you happen to be in.

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

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