Revision is different from editing. Editing is like a sweet spot. Editing is when you're up at three in the morning, and there's an em dash, and you're trying to decide if it should be an em dash or a semicolon, and you're going back and forth; that's joy, that's pleasure. That's when you're looking at two words: do I mean blue, or do I mean azure? That's editing. Right? But revision is also exciting. Revision is when you look at what a draft of a poem gives you, and you begin to think, well where else could this poem go? Let's say you've written this poem about love. Right, that old abstraction, but let's say somewhere in that poem something else begins to creep its way in, after all of the, "And you're so...", and, "I miss you!" and all of that, you see a line in there about weather as in rain, or thunder, a blizzard. And suddenly, you get this surprise in your own poem, that this poem that you thought was just the list of the qualities of somebody who amazes you, suddenly has something to do with weather. And now with revision, you're seeing the poem completely new. You're seeing it again. But kind of like you're seeing it for the first time. And so now when you're working on the poem, you have that whole other thing that you can work with: love and weather. And you can begin turning the poem to take advantage of this really cool idea that you didn't expect when you first sat down to start writing it. That's what revision is. It's like cultivating the ability to read your poem through someone else's eyes. And that's what all these tools we've been talking about allow you to do. When you're not just thinking about the poem as a confession of your feelings, or an expression of some emotion, or even a prolonged argument with an idea. But you can begin thinking about it as this convergence of sound, pattern, figures of speech, line breaks, rhythm. You can come outside of your poem, and see it from a different angle. Sometimes, those different angles are exactly where the poem needed to go in the first place, and you just needed a draft to begin unlocking it. I'll tell you, I've had revision for poems where I've actually thrown away 75% of the poem, because what I realized was that what I really needed to say was located right up at the top. And then the remainder of the poem becomes new writing, taking advantage of that thing, that surprise.