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Love, our subject:we've trained it like ivy to our walls.

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In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.

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and I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim uswhich will we claimhow will we go on livinghow will we touch, what will we knowwhat will w...more

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For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.

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Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

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We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out of control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, ...more

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We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out of control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, ...more

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Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.

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...you look at me like an emergency

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Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions - whether of sex, race, or servitude.

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But it is the subjects, the conversations, the facts we shy away from, which claim us in the form of writer's block, as mere rhetoric, as hysteria, in...more

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Poetry is, among other things, a criticism of language.

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Was it worth while to lay— with infinite exertion—a roof I can't live under? —All those blueprints, closings of gaps,measurings, calculations? A life ...more

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Storm WarningsThe glass has been falling all the afternoon, And knowing better than the instrument What winds are walking overhead, what zone Of grey ...more

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the phantom of the man-who-would-understand,the lost brother, the twin ---for him did we leave our mothers,deny our sisters, over and over?did we inve...more