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A 'mineshaft' does love a story! And there is nothing like it when a child goes down and is either rescued alive or not. People continue to talk about it for years. And so goes a good poem - once tender and young - too. This is called making the best of a romantic trope. I remember when the poet Jack Gilbert - a total romantic - would say that something had to crack inside you before you could get a good poem out. I took that as kind of older poet's means of upping the ante and holding off us young. I suspect it's life that breaks you, not the poem. Stephen V http://stephenvincent.net/blog/ > <snip> > I have no idea why my sometimes dyslexic brain immediately read this as: > "The writing of a poem is like throwing a child into a mineshaft." > <snip> > > Q's advice to 'murder your darlings' perhaps? > > CW > _______________________________________________ > > 'What's the point of having a language that everybody knows?' > (Gypsy inhabitant of Barbaraville)