A number of poems don't work alone. They need to fit together to work.

Our mind is dark in some way, and so we use rhetoric as a kind of prop or foil.

I can't remember the past, or I can't see very clearly, or I've gotten older and the person I was isn't there anymore, and the place I grew up isn't where I live now.

Looking out a window from different vantage points changes what you see and therefore what you write.

I can't move my body slowly. I can't move the line slowly. So I end up with way too much, often opaque to me later.

I spend a lot of time revising. I'm not somebody who can move slowly.

Each of us is present, but partially.

For me, failure has to be acknowledged, needs to be faced in some way.

I'm really interested in what you remember, how you remember, what your perspective is as opposed to somebody else's.

Even your own memory changes over time because of circumstances or even because your body changes.

If it's a drop of dew, it will dissolve.

How can you ever know up, if you have never experienced down in your life.-Denis J

No use wishing now for any other sin.

A sense of desolation settled within me: a cold, slimy stone lodged under my lungs. There was nothing happy about the woods, I thought, especially at night.

The embrace was long and tight, but more like a complex language then a simple prolonged act. She said nothing at all, but damn she said everything. And I finally got it.

Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.

... he is rewarded with a form of eternal childhood, with the bounty and vigilance of the stars, the whole world was his inheritance and he shared it with everyone.

We dream our dreams away.

All activism is fake activism.

When dictators and tyrants seek to destroy the freedoms of men, their first target is the legal profession and through it the rule of law.

Generosity is a virtue for individuals, not governments. When governments are generous it is with other people’s money, other people’s safety, other people’s future.