How do you know when a poem is finished?
I think it’s an instinctive feeling. You just feel when a poem is finished; you don’t necessarily know. Of course, sometimes you’re wrong. Someone else might point out a suggestion to you that you’ve never seen before; maybe you don’t need the last three lines or maybe you need more. Maybe the language isn’t working hard enough in one spot. I trust my gut a lot, and then I send it out. If it gets published, I was at least a little bit right in someone’s opinion.
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