ONE
Don’t be casual with a poem.
If you want to know a poem,
commit and move in.
TWO
Don’t tell a poem what it says.
Listen to what the poem is saying.
THREE
If the poet and the poem are both speaking,
listen first to the poem, then to the poet.
FOUR
The poem is not yours.
The poem is not entirely the poet’s.
FIVE
The poem is an intercourse,
a way between two verbal
beings articulating worlds.