This match-making process is one of the toughest parts of writing poetry.
It often fails by being too forced in its attempted coupling or by following a path that's already too well-trodden. As a poet, I'm constantly wrestling with the task of marrying adjectives to nouns in a way that casts new light yet immediately sounds natural.
[As is my habit, I sat down to write early this morning, set a time limit
of two cups of coffee, got on with it. One cup of coffee per piece of
writing. On...
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