There are three broad categories of change that I am making: the arrangement of the lines of words, the words themselves within an individual poem, and the deletion of certain poems. The first I explained here. Now we come to…

The arrangement of the lines—that is, where the breaks occur—is not, I think a big deal. In other poems, perhaps; but not in these. These poems are written like speech, like the speech of ordinary, everyday people, marveling, wondering, waiting,…