To write poetry is to be very alone, but you always have the company of your influences. But you also have the company of the form itself, which has a kind of consciousness. I mean, the sonnet will simply tell you, that's too many syllables or that's too many lines or that's the wrong place. So, instead of being alone, you're in dialogue with the form.

Form is any aspect of a poem that encourages it to stay whole and not drift off into chaos.

No one here likes a wet dog.

And I should mention the light which falls through the big windows this time of day italicizing everything it touches.

The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement. If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out.

It seems only yesterday I used to believe there was nothing under my skin but light. If you cut me I could shine.

Write the poem only you can write.