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Why some poems never feel finished

I have been working on this sequence about my grandmother for two years and every time I think it is finished I read it and feel like I have not captured her at all

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The gap between lived experience and artistic expression creates endless revision cycles.

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