

the Coloured girlI saw water tumble like flowers ' heads kicked off by purple boots or droppedthe Coloured girl
as the bride does not and leaps off into the tale she'll tell those grand children not
yet. (I told you it feels angry but you looked at me and leant in
to blow hellohello hello before explaining to my cheek it's just eager to reach
the destined sea)
We run back and turn and laugh and tig-tag and from a tree the blackbird sees fish fighting their way up stream
TREE OF WORLDS

Tips For Editing Poetry***Tips For the Novice (and otherwise) - Editing***Tips For Editing Poetry
The blanket statement, "Editing/revision harms poetry," is simply wrong. It's akin to a photographer claiming that focusing the lens ruins the emotion of the photograph. It is the details, and the appropriate attention paid to them, that separate a photograph from a snapshot. Imagine a film maker slapping every frame he shot up on the screen without editing for continuity, for pacing, for effect. What a disaster. That is not to say that editing can't be destructive - there is such a thing as poor editing, just as there is po