I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem
What are the questions you wish to ask?
However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.
A nothing day full of wild beauty .... Little fish stream by, a river in water.
The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate
Snow falling softly on lashes of eyes you love, and a cold cheek growing warm next to your own in hushed dark familial December.