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Memory and poetry go together, absolutely. It is a matter of preserving and of remembering things.

By the time I arrive at evening, / they have just settled down to rest; / already invisible, they are turning / into the dreamwork of the trees ... .

This poem is endless, the odds against us are endless,
our chances of being alive together
statistically nonexistent;

Well, language seems to be something that obsesses me. I'm always writing about it.

I thought if only we could go on
and meet again, shy as strangers.

When I am asked
how I began writing poems,
I talk about the indifference of nature.

At home the bookshelves connected heaven and earth.

I will not return to a universe
of objects that do not know each other, as if islands were not the long lost children of one great continent

I search the language for a word
to tell you how red is red.