"I became a writer when I began to take it seriously."

"I find playing with form allows me to play with ideas."

"I can look at the world aslant by using an unusual form and thus take hold of an idea in a unique way."

"The forms often loop back on themselves... circling around on an idea in order to examine it more fully."

"I find a way to ground myself, literally by using the ground of places near where I live."

"I do this in my long poems. I have to move between one thing and another and this oscillation is the way I find out w…"

"Imaro exploded. "Why do men fight like starving lions over yellow metal and let valuable cattle go?""

"Alarms clang as a radarman tracks an attack craft that can jam radar and dart past flak at half a Mach: ack-ack-ack, …"

"Whenever Helen sleeps, her fevered rest meekens her; hence, she re-emerges enfeebled — her strength, expended; her re…"

"Lightning blinks, striking things in its midst with blinding light. Whirlwinds whirl; driftwinds drift. Spindrift is …"