Workshop I ask the room “Have I lifted this line from someone’s poem?” ‘The narrow avenues of nakedness.’ I can’t remember where I heard it or ifI wrote it myself. I hardly ever say ‘avenues.’ I say words like ‘streets.’ I do not wish to offend; I will remove the line. Unless you maybe see something there tethering your work to mine. It can bethe tie that bindsus together for all time.”