"A garden is made of hope."
- W.S. Merwin
"Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color."
"part memory part distance remainingmine in the ways that I learn to miss you"
"My words are the garment of what I shall never be Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy."
"I offer you what I have myPoverty"
"from what we cannot hold the stars are made"
"Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca."
"So this is what I amPondering his eyes that could notConceive that I was a creature to run fromI who have always believed too much in words"
"What you remember saves you."
"We keep asking where they have gonethose years we remember and wereach for them like hands in the night"