How to Write a Poem

i wrote a poem that i liked so much i sent it to the new yorker. I have a copy of this somewhere, a hard copy only, i think, some in some box. It was sort of longish, and it was bout a kid jumping in a pile of leaves in the fall. That's nice, but, ah, aswe will see, it had, you know, symbolism and a in metaphor. You never said leaves or pile of leaves, or, you never anything like that. The poems were all very skilfully crafted.