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.

I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change.

But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.

You have begun to separate the dark from the dark.

No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.

How weightless/ words are when nothing will do.

My earliest poems were a way of talking to somebody. I suppose to myself.