i think this form is defined visually, by
the oblong of gray that it makes on the page. there
is also a typical length, & one of my constant
frustrations in poetry workshop was that poets
would never stop writing until they had filled up
a page & a half. they couldn't seem to understand
that a poem generates its own internal dynamic, &
finishes when it is done.
but then, a lot of them couldn't grasp line-ending
notation either.
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