Sturgeon's Law

Great discussion on that a few posts down. I've made up a new approach, which (as is my wont) is ridiculously micromanagy. The gist of it: I already know what I want the first few poems and the last few poems in the manuscript to be. In between, I'm going to try to order the poems so there's consistently variety in the broad/specific themes, forms, and quality/strength ("But all my poems are equally strong!") from one poem to the next, but so the mood is more of a gradual, natural flow that doesn't necessarily change between consecutive poems. I'll let you know once I tear my hair out over it, ha ha.