Irreverence is a way of playing hooky and remaining present at the same time.

I'm lucky enough to occasionally be able to do something I love - write poems - and unlucky enough that what I love confuses and overwhelms me.

I am convinced that the first lyric poem was written at night, and that the moon was witness to the event and that the event was witness to the moon. For me, the moon has always been the very embodiment of lyric poetry.

I hated childhood / I hate adulthood / And I love being alive.

If you have any idea for a poem, an exact grid of intent, you are on the wrong path, a dead-end alley, at the top of a cliff you haven't even climbed. This is a lesson that can only be learned by trial and error.

Every time it starts to snow, I would like to have sex.

We are all one question, and the best answer seems to be love—a connection between things.