How to make haiku, Step 3

Step 3: Simmer

When you have gathered the clay and your fingers are dirty with it, and you are tired and can no longer think, then you wait. You walk away. You let the words simmer.

Simmering can take as little as a few minutes or as long as a few months. There is no rule of thumb, only that you take a break.

Simmering is why one poem might be finished in half an hour, but another might be tweaked for over a year.

Simmering is a stage that is revisited whenever it feels as though the finished poem (what is produced after the first time through step 3) is really not finished, and needs some attention. You keep it company for awhile, then simmer, then come back.

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