Alan Harris reading
Nine Steps to a Poem
by Alan Harris
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Get born. Have a confusing non-fatal childhood. Grapple with religion and let it think it won. Work at a job that has nothing to do with poetry. Be amazed at how people can act the way they do. Revel and fail in love x times before a settling occurs. Struggle with y dilemmas and escape z threats to life. Fail to let go of an idea that fails to let go of you. Hold onto your pen while the poem writes itself. |
From the book Just Below Now (2000)
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