You've published a number of novels and many, many poems. In one the lines stop sooner.
Poetry is more intense, more concentrated.
But even with a fair number of poems from that book, to me it is one continuity. Whereas every novel is microcosm. It is a little world I create, live in, and depart. In a way a novel is like that, you live in it and then sell it out from under yourself, and move on. The novel, because of the size of it, you cannot encompass the way you can a poem.