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This is poem about how a poem happens – or doesn't.

Most writers will tell you, we don't really write poetry. we just try to make ourselves available to it. It comes from someplace else.

I think the poet's part of this is to listen carefully, not push or pull, but let it come and then write it down. If I TRY to write, that never works. It comes when it wants to, and you can never know when something will come. So be ready.