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

Singing has nothing to do with poetry, except as twins separated at birth.

Rather, the collapsing between act and condition, "I am" with "I do," feels like authenticity, an authenticity of being. The muse rewarded me for a few months, after April of 2012, by giving me poems, almost a poem each day, that I can claim as coming from my writer's status.

I have a muse who's very powerful, but I'm still a hopeless deadbeat of a poet.

I was writing poems as I was walking. I was able to take that restlessness, that nomadic distraction, and use that distraction in the world and turn that distraction into observations and then into poems.

Poetry has roots, but they are sometimes cut off and still poetry is written.

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.