Dear Pigpen: we need to talk

[rowens]

I was once given some thought-provoking feedback from someone here on the forum named milo. He asked me in a thread for another poem what would happen if I stopped trying to explain and learned to trust my reader. I found this advice compelling; however it might be one of those magical, milo tricks that only he can get away with.

I wouldn't trust a reader of my poems as far as I could throw them. I've never met someone who has read my poems in person, so I can't throw them. I've met people in person before they read my poems.