i envy icarus

@alliyah thank you so much c:

Today's drawing is so great! You got the nose just right
As for the poem, a line that stuck out to me was

suffocation is a slow way to fall

You just put it so well to how Icarus might have felt on his decent. Great work!

Hello fatherfig! This is such an interesting and well-executed thread. I love how each poem takes its own angle on the Icarus motif. Here's some of my favourite lines from the most recent poems:

your palms are scalded and folded inwards
upwards tulips your soft tan fingers are curled

I really like the word "tulips" here. It's an image perfect for showing the 'softness' of the gesture, and it's a good contrast with "scalded". The links in that poem between wax and ichor are really neat as well. I feel like those really show the role of the sun for Icarus as both being life-giving and destructive.

the sun is broken but im still out here hand outstretched
like a plant seeking another angle twisting myself

I like the plant metaphor for this image of Icarus in a post-apocalyptic world (or that's what comes to mind for me when I read this poem anyway!) "im still out here" feels very grounded and personal, and Icarus being reimagined as a plant in general is a fresh take on the myth that I really enjoy.

in this vastness the sun is just
a hanging ornament and i am just a man

And now the focus is on the ocean! That's another cool highlighting of an element of the Icarus myth (or what I remember of it at least, which is that Icarus flew on wax wings over an ocean). I love the quoted lines and the accompanying drawing. They transform the idea of the sun as the biggest thing that's been prevalent in the poetry series so far, and show another perspective where both Icarus and the sun are engulfed by this wider world/universe of the water. I like the way these lines could also draw a comparison between the phrase "hanging ornament" and "man".

Great going this NaPo - keep writing!