"Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language."

children
when they ask you
why your mama so funny
say
she is a poet
she don't have no sense.

i keep hearing
tree talk
water words
and i keep knowing what they mean.

". . . even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties, in my definitions, I did not break. The shattering of my sureties did not shatter me. Stability comes from inside, not outside...."

"People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated."