I don't feel I have a draft of a poem until I've been changed in some very small way. It could just be the way that I see the subject matter that I'm writing about just shifts by like 5%. Or it could be some tremendous sea change where it completely changes how I view a certain event, person, animal, idea. There has to be some kind of progression. I can't be the same person I was when I started writing the poem. The poet John Keats called negative capability, that ability to sit in that uncomfortable place without what he calls an irritable reaching for answers that are immediate or obvious.

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