How does a poem begin?
For me, a poem begins with me sitting down with my poetry notebook and a pencil and barely looking at the page, just writing what shimmer to the surface right then. Sometimes I will begin with a concept or an idea or a line that I’ve been tossing around. When I am drafting something surprising always arrives. Often I will read the poem over days or months later to revise and I will be astonished by what I have written. Sometimes I will barely remember the lines at all, and sometimes I will hardly be able to read the writing and I will have to guess at what I meant to say. Poetry is me not saying what I am supposed to say but instead choosing only the truth.
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