New and Selected Poems: Volume Two

As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other.

I turn to poems to find spaces that might enlarge, rather than distill, experience.

I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life.

So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.

The woods that I loved as a child are entirely gone. The woods that I loved as a young adult are gone. The woods that most recently I walked in are not gone, but they're full of bicycle trails.