Writing Problems: Get the body into it

A problem occurs when a reader—a person separated from the writer in space and time—tries to find a door or window into the poem and the barrier of access to the writer’s mind is not sufficiently porous. The reader can’t find a way in. 

As it turns out, the means of egress is physicality. Marie Ponsot put it this way:

Often the best way to bring the immediacy of experience into a poem is through the body: how did it actually feel to experience the thing? How did your body move and respond? How were you breathing? What was happening with your pulse?