But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.
But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity.
My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.
For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.
How weightless/ words are when nothing will do.
My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote.