I write to find out what is possible to think, meaning it’s the changing of the thought that I chase, that miraculous capacity that can expand. Once I have a phrase, a sentence, a paragraph down on the page, what thrills me is to watch what happens to the thought if it’s written in questions versus statements, this word rather than that word, a different syntax, vocabulary, punctuation. I want to know what thinking can do—what it makes, destroys, negotiates, protects, transgresses against; how it can be knife, fist, kiss, well, map, key.
