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

I think the language of science is highly lyrical and evocative and an important part of our lives in many ways.

It sounds old-fashioned to say, but we have some kind of purpose for being here, not poets or writers, but all of us humans.

Poetry is so close to music, not just in cadence and sound but in silences. That's why, to me, I can't talk about prose poems. I can talk about poetic prose.

I don't write or think too much about the word "salvation." I might; I probably should. We are such needy creatures, needing to be saved, to feel we are saved or might be, however we define ourselves, however we define that word.

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

To my mind, most prose poems are more prose than poetry. They don't possess most of the qualities of a poem.