library paradox

When I had fewer books I read more. Or maybe I read the books I had better.

room for more

Poems are creatures we put into the world to respond to us, and to whom we, in turn, respond. And marvelously there’s always room for more.

—Irving Feldman, Usable Truths (Waywiser Press, 2019)

running behind

You can’t make up lost ground in the poem by adding more words.

enough already

The poet never thinks ‘More could be said about this’.