The city and nature, the built stone and the found stone, concrete and slate, poetry addresses them all democratically.

Even today, I'm much more comfortable dressed in a male kind of way.

At a certain point, the struggles with teaching and mothering and so on and so forth, those decline, those lessen.

The consciousness of one's physical self had to be repressed because, socially, the female body was so visible, an ongoing provocation and incitement of specular curiosity and fascination.

The city and nature, the built stone and the found stone, concrete and slate, poetry addresses them all democratically.

People called me a tomboy. That was the term used then. I was very much someone who was comfortable in male clothing, and even later when I grew up, I was constantly wearing dungarees, wearing guy shirts.

Writing a poem is unwriting a knot, like untying a shoelace that is clubbing your foot.