"How I thought/think about poems..."

image by GL

Nice imagery in the post by Susan Grimm about writing poetry, in her blog "The White Space Inside the Poem"

"I was trying to write a poem that was solid, all of a piece, weighty as a stone that I could drop into the vast water of a reader's attention. There would be that satisfying plop noise and then the rings travelling out all the way to the invisible beyond...."