How do you know when a poem is finished?
Apart from some deep down, body-mind intuition, I often feel a poem is finished when I am brave enough to share it beyond my circle of closest supporters (like to a lit mag, for example). I think submitting poems requires a person to be vulnerable—and vulnerability can be a very uncomfortable space to be in. So when you feel it’s worth it to sit within that discomfort, I’d say the poem is finished.
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