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

For me, failure has to be acknowledged, needs to be faced in some way.

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.

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

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