I think of my best poems as vessels that I can or hope to fill with everything I … - Alex Lemon

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I am the lord of Redmont Fief. He is my tenant. I am his commander. End of story. Ipso facto. Case-o closed-o.

Alex Lemon

I think of my best poems as vessels that I can or hope to fill with everything I have. I try to give to them all of the electric complexity. Each one fails at this, of course, but I keep trying - adoring each of them, loving the process, the ebb and flow of it - and each time, the failures fail a bit better.

Adoring, Give, Giving, Keep, Thinking, Trying

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My poems and prose are not often in direct conversation with each other, but there's so much crossover - everything that comes out of that crucible of language - that working in poetry and prose is energizing - to me as a writer and to the work itself.

Conversation, Crucible, Direct, Everything, Language, Poems

Poetry needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity, the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty.

Alive, Complexity, Grit, Needs, Unabashedly

The world comes to us in fragments and shards. Whatever stories we shape from our days, we're always dealing with gaps, blank-spots, and blackouts - and in handling all these breakages, we are, at all times, so incredibly intimate with sharp edges, the unending knife-like moments of failure and joy in our lives.

Failure, Joy, Knives, Lives, Stories

Well, we're all going to die, so mortality is a part of writing and life.

Life, Mortality, Part, Writing

The more prose I wrote, the more the pendulum swung back toward the middle, merging some poetic sensibilities with the more fundamental elements of creative prose.

Creative, Poetic, Prose, Sensibilities, Swung