If you want your words
to sing on the page
you need to keep harmonizing,
keep testing different notes, trying
different combinations of words
arranging and rearranging,
then rearranging again
until the words on the page
find the order they are meant to appear in
as if the final draft
is a lock’s combination
that you can only discover
through multiple turnings
as if the words themselves
choose their positions on the page,
as if set there
by some divine hand
some muse with the voice
of an angel
whose voice
becomes your voice,
her song, your song.
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