Seven Words for Les Murray Self-addressed stamped envelope pigeons home. Tear it open! Poetry editor’s comment: sorry I can’t like any of these … Ah—so why do I feel empowered reading those seven familiar words, more so than acceptances by most other editors? Better to be abused than ignored, a habitually mistreated friend once told me? Emphatic NO to this. Even a rejection from LM is a hand-up, a rise, a lift. Not a knock, but a nudge, to keep scribbling— standing, falling, standing in the gravity-fight of language. More than the cliché of tough love, an archery instructor grasping…