I would love to collaborate on a graphic novel with an artist - I'm terrible at drawing but I really love that genre.

I certainly believe you can write a narrative lyric or a lyrical narrative - why not a nyric or a larrative?

I don't like basements, but definitely basements could be poems. Not fond of skin diseases, but again, there's a pattern. Probably anything could be a poem.

I grew up spending time at my grandmother's farm in Germany and she lived a few kilometers away from the border between east and west Germany. It was so strange that roads which used to connect two towns now ended in the middle.

"Confessional poetry" is another one of those labels. It goes in and out of fashion.

I thought that perhaps if the sky was truly free of clouds and any other distractions (birds, kites, skywriting), we could see if there was something else out there. I wasn't really raised in any religion (in England I attended an Anglican school and went to a Methodist church, but I left that all behind at the age of eight when we moved to the U.S.), but like most people, I sometimes wonder if there's anything or anyone out there.

We humans have an amazing way of making everything personal.