It's important to have your private enjoyments because sometimes that's all we have..

The day misspent, the love misplaced, has inside it the seed of redemption. Nothing is exempt from resurrection..

It’s hard not to jump out instead of waiting to be found. It’s hard to be alone so long and then hear someone come around. It’s like some form of ski….

I simply want to celebrate the fact that right near your home, year in and year out, a community college is quietly - and with very little financial ….

If we have not struggled/as hard as we can/at our strongest/how will we sense/the shape of our losses/or know what sustains/us longest or name/what c….

Gaps don't/just happen./There is a/generative element/inside them,/a welling motion/ as when cold/waters shoulder/up through/warmer oceans./And where….

The satisfactions/of agreement are/immediate as sugar--/a melting of the/granular, a syrup/that lingers, shared/not singular./Many prefer it..

Action creates/a taste/for itself..

It isn't ever delicate to live..

What keeps me writing is that I can only know through writing. My major sense organ is apparently a pencil..

Small presses take chances. Chances are at the heart of all the literature we later know as great..

A lot of the job that one has to do as a writer is to protect the thing that doesn't match the world..

Failure: the renewable resource..

I don't think any poetry is written that isn't primarily written to the self, in a way... I'm always talking to myself. But I seem to want somebody e….

As for reality, I don't even have any interest in that word..

Who would have guessed it possible that waiting is sustainable. A place with its own harvest..

I have tried to live very quietly, so I could be happy..

It seems like many people think that if you drive yourself crazy, then you can write. I’m absolutely not interested in that. It made sense to me to b….

A too closely watched flower/blossoms the wrong color./Excess attention to the jonquil/turns it gentian. Flowers/need it tranquil to get/their hues r….

CROWN Too much rain loosens trees. In the hills giant oaks fall upon their knees. You can touch parts you have no right to— places only birds should ….

Forgetting takes space./Forgotten matters displace/as much anything else as/anything else. We must/skirt unlabeled crates/as thought it made sense/an….