from another room

Allusions are the like voices half-heard from adjoining rooms.

and it is me

I found the perfect reader for my poem, and it was me: Only I could see all the nuances, subtleties, allusions packed into the poem.

well-spring

Each word was a well of associations.

stuck here & there

After the critic got finished with the poem it was a pincushion of far-fetched associations.

lays it on

Poetry may be doublespeak and sometimes triple- and quadruple-speak.

lit up

Each word illuminated from within by allusion.

lazy man's load

The line was trying to carry a ‘lazy man’s load’ of allusions.