This morning, I was looking at different drafts of those four "new" poems. It was interesting reading the versions that you won't find in my book.
One of the "new" poems in my book is titled Things to do if you are BIRDS. Here is one of the earlier versions of that poem:
Things
to Do If You Are a Bird
Perch
in a tree top.
Warble
a song.
Fill
morning with music
Welcoming
dawn.
Go
fetch a fine breakfast.
Get
up…out of bed.
Time
to get busy—
A
new day’s ahead!
You'll see the final version of the poem as it appears in the book in the illustration below. Sorry the text is so small:
2 comments:
What fun to see the work in progress. It must have been difficult to cut 19 poems! I love the result.
JoAnn,
It took months of discussions with my editor and lots of writing and rewriting. I wrote eight different drafts of my poetry collection.
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