With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.

In the late 60s and early 70s, I did get interested in voices, and in narration and embodying the voice, making the poem sound like a real person talking.

I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.

One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice.

With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.

A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.

You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does.