The ancestors are very much invested in the children, because the children are the ones who are going to continue the world that the ancestors made.

Sociological prose can tell you everything, but it can't point out the grief.

I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me.

The world belongs primarily to the dead, and we only rent it from them for a little while. They created it, they wrote its literature and its songs, and they are deeply invested in how children are treated, because the children are the ones who will keep it going. The idea that each of us has the right to change everything is a deep insult to them.

I have risen to a body not yet born, existing like a light around a body through which the body moves like a sliding moon.

Poetry keeps longing alive.

Wherever there is water there is someone drowning.