08-03-2012, 08:53 AM
hey penguin
(08-02-2012, 09:25 PM)penguin Wrote: Two blistered sausages spilling ...personally, would take "spill" over "spilling" to both make it grammatical and have more of a focus on the /s/ sound. "blistered sausages" is interestingi'm not sure what to take from the piece. there are a lot of images of release (the sausages, the egg, the sun's departure), though the last bit didn't quite match up with that theme as well. maybe, though, the children could be seen as diffusing a situation (what with the "broken" after the "anger" bit). perhaps it's more of a depiction of imperfection, or even perfection just-missed, or just frustration in general.
their stuffing over the sofa.
The yellow of an egg has run;
the sun has exited the sky.
Burnt bacon curled dark anger, ...it felt a little weird for a poem that focuses so much on visual, concrete details to have a statement like "dark anger"
broken by children full of beans
Written only for you to consider.

