Poetry editing is not about perfection. It is about listening.
I read out loud until the poem breathes correctly.
I remove lines that sound clever but are untrue.
I retain those that shake me.
I sometimes change words not for the sake of rhyme but for truth.
I sometimes preserve broken lines because a gap speaks louder than grammar.
The process of editing is slow and meditative:
pen down, pause, re-read, whisper.
Is this line still mine?
Editing is not subtracting emotion; it is refining it.
It is the craft of going back into yourself
and having your heart speak to you once more,
only softer now.
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