I am also a continual reviser, even after poems have been accepted, even after they've been published. Like Jean, I regard that as being conscientious - working your trade. Any finished poem contains compromises - words that don't quite say or sound what you want to, but it's the closest you can come; phrases that take the poem in a slightly skewed direction, but you like the sonics, etc. and etc. Look at the poem two days later - or two years later - and you may very well see a better compromise. I tweak and I tweak and I tweak.
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