Some Things Poets Know

1. It is fascinating how poems will only work true when you expose yourself in them.
2. Sometimes, the exposé (pose) must be slant. 
3. ​​Poems are demanding.
4. ​Unburying reveals what poems were always meant to be.
5. That precise meaning shudders.
6. That clear space of translation where something tremendous comes through.
7. Allow energy to move.
8. Self possession: you get to learn the multiple meanings of this.
9. Writing may start out as rebellion and become continuity. (With the ancestors.)