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.

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

I try to attach myself to things around me so that they don't slip away.

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

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.

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