ONE
Don’t be casual with a poem.
If you want to know a poem,
move in.
TWO
Don’t tell a poem what it says.
Ask a poem what it is saying.
THREE
If the poet and the poem are both speaking,
listen first to the poem, then the poet.
FOUR
The poem is not you.
The poem is not even the poet.
FIVE
The poem is an intercourse
between two experiences.
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intercourse = a way between