Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

Two buckets were easier carried than one. / I grew up in between.

When I was teaching, I gave a lot of my mind and anxiety to it. There was always something clenched and anxious in me until the classes were over.

Allow ourselves to do as Ram Dass said in his delicious phrase "Be Here Now." If you are here now you cannot fall into falsely constructed gender projections.

The dotted line my father's ashplant made On Sandymount Strand Is something else the tide won't wash away.

Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.

The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.