I'd rather call prose poems something else, for clarity - something like "poetic prose," prose that contains a quality of poetry, but not poems.

The greatest tragedy that can befall a poet is to be praised by being misunderstood.

Poetry doesn't function by saying things straightforwardly because the language is too imprecise, too limited often, to address the underlying subject of most poems.

Ordering is very important with essays, even if a reader doesn't read the essays or the poems in order through the book...

I've spent much of my life being attuned to watching for an image or a phrase that can trigger what might be a poem - could become a poem.

When the music created by the sounds and ordering of the words matches the thrust of the meanings of the words, then a radiant state of awareness can occur.

A poetic list is a talent in itself. You can write a list of things, and it can be boring.