I'm all over my poems, even if their relation to my everyday life is that of dream to reality.

Whether you're talking about political borders or aesthetic divisions (and clearly, the political ones have much more tragic consequences), it seems like once they are created, we want to patrol them, enforce them.

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

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

I think all poetry is accessible in a certain sense if you spend enough time with it.

I'm pretty lenient with myself about time - if I feel like taking photographs of small things inside ice cubes or making animal collages, I just do it. When I want to write, I write. It's all part of the same thing for me.

Poems tend to have instructions for how to read them embedded in their language.