Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out.

The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking

Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.

I speak to you in one tongue/ but every moment that ever mattered to me/ occurred in another language.

The writing of a poem is, for me, in the first place, an almost total act of abandon leading to discovery leading to recognition.

Try to write poems at least one person in the room will hate.

I'm partial to coffee shops, brain work, and poems on the page. I write after midnight. Sometimes, twisty syntax happens, and I surrender.