How does a poem begin?
The poem may begin in many ways. A mood, a single image, or sometimes a word is enough. Whatever it is, it beckons. A window, for instance, stands in the mind. It bubbles with semantic unraveling. It is an opening, both suture and wound. An adjective such as ‘abject’ appears in front of a name. A letter like ‘O’ or the desire to write about a place starts poems. So, a poem starts when it appears before the mind – as an outside spilling into us.
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