One Tends To Write Beyond What's Needed

Looking At The Sky Last Night And The Moon In The First Fresh Dark, Just A Few Stars, Bright With Their Cold Flares, I Had A Little Crumpled Thought, 'oh Well, The Moon. It's Just Another Place Like California.' One's Imagination Drags Its Feet As We Are Inexorably Hauled Into The Future.

However, If A Poem Can Be Reduced To A Prose Sentence, There Can't Be Much To It.

I Do Not Usually Revise Much, Though I Often Cut, Particularly The End Or Toward The End Of A Poem

What Are The Questions You Wish To Ask?

One Tends To Write Beyond What's Needed