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 prefer always to think that I am creating a book, not a series of stand-alone poems.

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

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

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

Language is as fragile as the little alpine plant.

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.