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Photography (clockwise): Old Mill Bridge, Speyside Forest, Ontario
(photographer unknown);  
Traveller at Sunset, Newport Beach, CA;
Shakespeare & Co. Bookstore, Paris;  
Evelyn Lake, Yosemite
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Though [Edward] Weeks says
revision is drudgery, I don’t
agree.  You can learn to love
tinkering with drafts of poems
till a warm hand from
somewhere above you reaches
down, unscrews the top of your
head, and drops in a solution
that blows your ears off.  Sure,
there are plenty of days . . .
when your revisions seem to be
dragging your poems in the
wrong direction.  But you need
to be there writing and waiting.  
To say it more simply . . . you
just need to ‘show up for work.’  

–  Ted Kooser
The Poetry Home Repair
Manual: Practical Advice For
Beginning Poets
serving poets, writers and photographers since 1998