Everyone had always told me I had to see alpine flowers, since I was writing about flowers, and I had never seen these. So I happened to be teaching a class at the University of Colorado, and I got to go for hikes that took me there. But my perspective was most often down at ground level, trying to see quite tiny exquisite flowers.

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

I want literature to open all the doors that I can't open by myself, and to allow me to see things that I wouldn't otherwise see.

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.

If it's a drop of dew, it will dissolve.

Often poets fall into groups that exclude others, and don't pay attention to those who write in different ways. It seems so limited to me.

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.