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Topsoil is a place of digestion. It sucks and chews things into smaller pieces. When it's hungry, it turns grey and stony; when it's thirsty... →
I think it is the easiest mentality for a human being to be either colonized or to colonize. The structure of either the slave or the master seems to... →
One of the rules of Greek lament poetry is that it mustn't mention the dead by name in case of invoking a ghost. Maybe the 'Iliad,'... →
I much preferred Latin to Greek. I loved the language being such a pattern that you could not shift a word without the whole sentence falling to... →
There's a lot of rage in my head. I like the friction that means there is nothing relaxing about writing a poem. I can't afford to relax in... →
I believe the poet shouldn't be in the poem at all except as a lens or as ears.
Most spiders eat and remake their webs every night.
Even when writing your own poems, you need to talk to people; you need to magpie around, getting words and things. I'm very against the celebrity... →
Wind ought to be a verb or an adverb. It isn't really anything. It's a manner of movement of warmth and cold: a kind of information system of... →
A dead tree, cut into planks and read from one end to the other, is a kind of line graph, with dates down one side and height along the other, as if... →
At each moment, a poem might grow into a totally different shape. It is not so much like working in a garden. It is more as if you remade the garden... →
I like Patti Smith's lyrics, and sometimes think I could be influenced by them. But she has a kind of cool that's beyond me.
I never meant to be a full-time poet: I started out as a gardener, an ideal job for a poet because your head is left free.
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