Oh, I always put the notes at the top of the poem. And I love notes. I put them in whenever I can. Sometimes they are only tangentially relevant, but I'm a note groupie and I'm proud of my notes. Why would I let them languish at the end of the book where they might very well be overlooked?
Possibly, well just possibly, I have TOO MANY notes, but that makes up for all those poetry books where poems, so elliptical they appear to be written in Linear B, stand naked before us and dare us to make sense of them.
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