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It’s difficult to write a simple poem, a poem of precision, accuracy, depth and breadth. One where each image is necessary to the whole, where the language both sings and means, makes and unmakes. After looking at the construction of deceptively simple poems for years, I finally see how they work, how dependent they are on diction and word choice, the gravitas achieved through what I’ll call “stately” language. We’ll look at poems by Joseph Millar, Walt Whitman, Robert Hayden and Jane Hirshfield.