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Interesting poem. Because I've been analyzing a lot of George Herbert's poetry recently, and reading Melville through a religious lens, I found this poem to have significant religious overtones, possi

steps of the temple doves that waver like pilot lights -- latched cages, the steps to the temple smooth as hands washing feet. a handful of coos, soft as a ...

While I continue to question to use of form and other various visual parlor tricks, I enjoyed your poem. Your focus here is obviously not on the language, as the ...

Petals falling like the paper climax to a chinese firecracker – the kind you find in striped tents in mid-size american cities beside the summer evening midas touch of fifty ...

And is this your heart arithmetic? This is the way the wind measures the weather. - Carl Sandburg, "How Much" i the bluest barest silk traveling up your thigh is ...