Poetry Creating Notes at the End of a Term

It's been a week of bits and pieces in terms of poetry. Let me record some of them here:--In my end of the semester cleaning up of the paperwork piles, I discovered lots of rough drafts of poems. A few of them had some potential. A few I couldn't remember where I thought the draft might be going. A few I didn't remember writing at all.It was good to remember that I did more than my computer files might indicate.--I was making some poetry submissions to literary journals before the bulk of submitting season winds down. There are moments when I wonder why I bother. But the occasional acceptance still makes me happy, so I persist.--As I was looking through my file of finished poems, I realized that I had reviewed a rough draft twice, once back in January when I first finished the rough draft and then again in April, when I had no memory of revising it back in January. I haven't circled back to see which draft I like better. It does bother me a bit that I had no memory of doing the…