I'll Vacuum up my stale hair, I'll pay all my neighbors' bad debts, I'll write a poem called Yellow and put my lips down to drink it up..

I am a collection of dismantled almosts..

My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees..

When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do..

I tied down time with a rope but it came back. Then I put my head in a death bowl and my eyes shut up like clams. They didn't come back..

Once upon a time we were all born, popped out like jelly rolls forgetting our fishdom, the pleasuring seas, the country of comfort, spanked into the ….

You cutting the lawn, fixing the machines, all this leprous day and then more vodka, more soda and the pond forgiving our bodies, the pond sucking ou….

I am torn in two but I will conquer myself..

women are born twice..

Depression is boring, I think and I would do better to make some soup and light up the cave..

The fish are naked. The fish are always awake. They are the color of old spoons and caramels..

I am out of practice at living. You are as brave as a motorcycle..

Come, my pretender, my fritter, my bubbler, my chicken biddy! Oh succulent one, it is but one turn in the road and I would be a cannibal!.

Images are probably the most important part of the poem. First of all you want to tell a story, but images are what are going to shore it up and get ….

One of my secret instructions to myself as a poet is "Whatever you do, don't be boring.".

I am alone here in my own mind. There is no map and there is no road. It is one of a kind just as yours is..

I imitatea memory of beliefthat I do not own..

I brush my hair, waiting in the pain machine for my bones to get hard, for the soft, soft bones that were laid apart and were screwed together. They ….

I want to kiss God on His nose and watch Him sneeze and so do you. Not out of disrespect. Out of pique. Out of a man-to-man thing..

Death, I need my little addiction to you. I need that tiny voice who, even as I rise from the sea, all woman, all there, says kill me, kill me..

I think of myself as writing for one person, that one perfect reader who understands and loves..