Heavens, David! Your Richard Hugo quote.... This has happened to me so often, I was beginning to think that this was my method--write a rather mediocre or even awful poem first, and then the next one seeming to build on that and be better. And yes, sometimes the second one often does come more easily, but not always.
I've never done this consciously, but clearly the mind knows its own mind, or its unconscious mind.
Charlotte
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