I do believe in Jesus as wholly God and wholly human, and I believe the human part was human.

If I can quote myself, I explained whatever it is I'm doing once for No Tell Motel, and I still think it's the clearest I've ever been about this: "I don't write free verse poems - mostly because I can't. But I am interested in the musical effects achievable with free verse."

I believe rhythmic sensibility is always a product and extension of language, defined broadly, among other things. But it is an immediate product and extension - no time elapses between the exposure to language and the creation of rhythmic sensibility.

I love to read long books. I enjoy experiencing that extension. But it's not something I feel comfortable with and not something I think I can gain comfort with by practice. It was a real struggle for me while writing memoir to get past three pages or so. In poems, I can write long poems. But length in prose: no.

I hope I can write toward my interests. But poets should be afraid of too fluidly responding to what they're interested in.

I'm always glad that other people are way smarter about my poems than I am.

There's no such thing as an animal too big too kill, AND we're cornered by such animals every day.