"My writing process is generally a bit haphazard. I carry notebooks around to capture ideas, observations, phrases, im…"

"I find inspiration in anything that sparks attention and emotion and associations—an object, a news article, a natura…"

"Now we walk out into the tunnel of days and a million memories rustle"

"till the moon rises, the night opens, and all the stars shine out."

"May we all fit together like this: trees, birds, sky, people, separate elements in a living portrait, outlines smooth…"

"Bless poetry books that cross oceans in battered envelopes, bearing small flames of words."

"hopes for peace: hand clasped in hand firmer than fist on a gun or club, hand raised in greeting stronger than hand r…"

"Today his words surround me with the quiet intensity of growing things, roots planted a long time ago lacing the dist…"

"See how we save even the broken bits of pottery, fitting fragments together along jagged lines to remember you"

"The sun will rise again tomorrow, vigilant and weary as hope."