A short review, but holy crumbs, Marms. You keep on hurting me so sweetly. <3
The strongest point, definitely, when you take into account re-read value and everything, is the opening statement:
loving you was like trying to skip
stones on a frozen lake.
I spent most of last night dawdling around on this image and drawing inference after inference between reads and I took something new from my own life, my own love life, my own tragedy each time. Embrace that. Remember that. Celebrate that. Acknowledge you've done it, but don't exactly try to carbon-copy it elsewhere, if that makes sense. Allow the unique nature of the image to maintain its integrity and be celebrated.
And the image continues throughout the poem--almost longingly wanting 'twisted' later on to be a version of 'cracked' to maintain that cooooold and very-fragile feeling. As always, an experiment worth conducting.
I appreciate the line breaks and white space added since last night. It gave a nice respite to momentum. It makes me wonder if you would feel similarly about some remaining places if you were to align your breathing with your reading while editing (which is what I do and why 80% of my poetry is white space.)
All-in-all, a wonderful showing. Conduct your experiments (particularly the aloud versions) and keep on going.
Ty
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