The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.

Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know.

What three things can never be done? / Forget. Keep silent. Stand alone

Punctuation is biological. It is the physical indication of the body-rhythms which the reader is to acknowledge.

Exchange is creation.

There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost.

Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness