There's no easy way to do this. So do it right: weep, laugh, watch, pray, love, live, give thanks and praise; comfort, mend, honor, and remember.

Grief is the price we pay for being close to one another. If we want to avoid our grief, we simply avoid each other.

Grief is the tax we pay on our attachments.

Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and undo us, create and destroy, how we breed and disappear and the emotional context that surrounds these events.

A good funeral gets the dead where they need to go and the living where they need to be.

... by doing you shall know What it is you have to do.

If I were assigned poems I suppose I'd write more of them but it is entirely voluntary and for the most part ignored in the market sense of the word so the language to me is most intimate, most important, most sublime and most satisfying when it gets done.