Gestate? How long does the average poem gestate?

First, there's no average in poetry.
Second, it's the poet and not the poem who is conceived and developed.


Now, how long does a peach gestate? Depends upon whether it's the fruit or tree under observation.

Gestate. Do all poems gestate?

In the body? In the mind? Is "immaculate conception" or something similar, possible in poetry-making? I've heard poets speak poems on-the-spot, immediate verbal writing to awaiting ears.


A meal needs ingredients. Therefore, all meals gestate. The time varies.