I went to India and was quite taken with it. There's a feeling there that things are holy first and useful second. And in America, we have it backwards.
Everybody has to have their little tooth of power. Everybody wants to be able to bite.
I climb, I backtrack. I float. I ramble my way home.
The sea isn't a place but a fact, and a mystery.
When will you have a little pity for every soft thing that walks through the world, yourself included.
I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think of myself as a poet; I just get up and write.