Thursday, 9 July 2020

Stella Hayes : part three

How do you know when a poem is finished?

That’s such a hard thing. It’s hard to know. Sometimes a poem’s penultimate line is the last line and I won’t know it until I read it out loud or record it and play it back so I hear it like other people would hear it. But that doesn’t always work. So I put it in my desk drawer, if you will. I leave it alone until I come back to it and feel my way to the ending.
 

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