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• The satisfactions/of agreement are/immediate as sugar--/a melting of the/granular, a syrup/that lingers, shared/not singular./Many prefer it.
• I simply want to celebrate the fact that right near your home, year in and year out, a community college is quietly…
• It seems like many people think that if you drive yourself crazy, then you can write. I’m absolutely not interested in that.…
• A lot of the job that one has to do as a writer is to protect the thing that doesn't match the…
• Small presses take chances. Chances are at the heart of all the literature we later know as great.
• I don't think any poetry is written that isn't primarily written to the self, in a way... I'm always talking to myself.…
• What keeps me writing is that I can only know through writing. My major sense organ is apparently a pencil.
• Who would have guessed it possible that waiting is sustainable. A place with its own harvest.
• It’s hard not to jump out instead of waiting to be found. It’s hard to be alone so long and then hear…
• Action creates/a taste/for itself.
• Forgetting takes space./Forgotten matters displace/as much anything else as/anything else. We must/skirt unlabeled crates/as thought it made sense/and take them when we…
• Gaps don't/just happen./There is a/generative element/inside them,/a welling motion/ as when cold/waters shoulder/up through/warmer oceans./And where gaps/choose to widen,/coordinates warp,/even in places/constant…

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