How do you edit your poems?

Editing a poem

is like making a sauce;

there's no end of things you might add

for liquid, from water to wine, cream

or fruit juice, all over and above

whatever, shallots to chicken

scraps, butter, coriander,

but if you want flavour

you have to reduce.

Remember the sonorous

beat, and check the diction

for salt. The mind, that lazy

bastard, always waiting

to betray you. Eliminate

everything redundant. Concentrate.