Saving Room for a Title

[Leanne]

Titles are almost always the last thing for me, but never an afterthought. Occasionally I'll post something with a working title, but once I settle on a title I'm happy with it becomes a very important part of the poem. I am not entirely opposed to using a word out of the poem, though I very rarely do that.

To choose a title, I generally just let the poem sit for a while in my head and some associated word or phrase will end up fitting properly. And sometimes, I just choose something completely irrelevant to see who's actually reading the poem and who's just basing their "reading" on what they think the title means.