“It’s just . . . The thing I like about poetry is that it can mean whatever it is you want it to mean. There’s what the poet means, what the writer means, but I’m not sure that matters, ever, and less so even than normal with a poem. It’s just you, assembling the words and the images and the ideas and thinking about your own life and the things you know and the meaning is there, somehow, in you, and not where you think it is, on the page.”
