How do you know when a poem is finished?
I don’t always know. Every once in a while, I’ll write a poem in a big exorcism-style gush and afterwards kind of brush my hands together and think: “done and done.” Much more often, I’ll write a poem, redraft several times, continue to fiddle over a period of days or weeks until it feels if not finished, exactly, then as I far as I’m capable of taking it. Sometimes, that’s as good as it gets.
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