Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening/Night(whichever one it is in your part of the world),
Hi! I'm Kate and I'm here to leave a quick review!!
Anyway let's get right to: Kate's Line by Line Reactions;
Hello there! A little bit late on this review, but I've decided I'd rather go ahead and review it anyway because this is a genuinely really powerful poem and I want to tell you how awesome it (and you) happen to be! You know, cause I never do that normally, not at all!
Well reading through her, first of all, really love the comparison there. Its not something you'd immediately think of has having a lot of poetic value, but that definition of a parallel line starts to look like a poem all on its own when you've got it set up in that fashion and I think that's a beautiful example of your new approach these days, producing just one amazing poem after the other by drawing from so many areas that you really just wouldn't think to do.
Its been amazing to watch you do that and I think this poem really gets enhanced by this. The lines on their own are incredible and having a little idea of the backstory behind it, I feel it especially strongly, its a heartbreaking poem with a very clear message. That's something I always love about your poetry. You never say the emotions out loud but they strike you over the head anyway, never actually hiding behind this layer of meaning. Perhaps its cause I know you well enough to understand some of the context but I think its genuinely just how you write. Your voice is so powerful that metaphors can barely do anything to mask its power.
And that's that. Overall its another amazing poem and I can't really do much but stare in awe at it. The idea of how a mother can move on this quickly, treat a child like an afterthought and then it seems as per my interpretation at the end still expects the child to be all happy and doing perfectly find at the end of it is well heartbreaking in any structure but especially so with the powerful words you've used here today. Thank you for letting me read and review this even though there's no way I could think of a suggestion to improve this. But here are my thoughts anyway.
Aaand that's it for this oneee!!!
As always remember to: Take what you think was helpful and forget the rest!
Kate
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