[New-Poetry] Questions on form

[Steve Moore]

I also grew up o the west coast, California, Oregon, and Alaska (I  
currently live in Fairbanks). We tend to compress our words, cutting  
out extra vowels and compressing two short syllables into a single  
long syllable. Most of us also pronounce our T's as D's when it is at  
the middle or end of a word. Of course, that brings up the question,  
do you base your syllables on how you read it, or how you think your  
readers will read it.