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Re: till the very end
Love love love this! My first impression was that this poem has a ballad-like quality to it. The repetition gives it the feeling of a refrain, the speaker is trying ...
May 17 -
Re: Medford, Boston, Massachusetts
Whaddyamean you can just write poetry and it's not terrible? This is extremely bleak, as I expected. The line about being 'desperate to meet nobody' is doing a lot. The ...
May 11 -
Re: it is never not ugly, he tells me
Hello! This poem is doing something very interesting. It takes an intimate relationship and filters it through biblical, liturgical, academic language until the beloved becomes both a body and a ...
May 11 -
Re: caskets [for safe keeping]
Hello! I first noticed how sharp and direct this poem feels. There’s a kind of controlled bluntness to it that suits the subject matter really well. The opening line especially, ...
Mar 27 -
Re: it is all starlit
Oh hello! When I first read this poem, what struck me most was the heavy sense of domesticity, e.g. the idea of being married to a ghost or finding a ...
Mar 25
