People "confess" can be wildly different. I might go into the confessional and say, "Father, what is my obsession with miniatures?"

It's really thrilling to work with an illustrator - your vision expands with the addition of someone else's artwork/artistic vision.

I also like poems that are haunted by a structure or a narrative, or poems that frisk flirtatiously at the boundary of sense.

Erasures are interesting to me because they prove what particular sieves we all are.

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 don't think all poems need to be written in conversational language - those are often great poems but there should also be poems of incoherent bewilderment and muddled mystery.

Encountering rhyme out of the blue is like finding a long-lost twin (fraternal), or a suitcase that closes with a particularly satisfying click.