Supine
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(10-10-2012, 06:55 PM)Lottie90 Wrote:  Supine

I lay, supine, somewhere between faith--Others have commented on this but I'd pull supine from the first line the title already does the work for you. I also think you might want to break after between it feels stronger than on faith.
And infidelity.
Lip to lip I stole the toothpick from--Maybe keep it in present tense with steal
Between your Scrabble tile teeth and--I like the Scrabble tile image. It has the shape of teeth and gives the sense of how the person may communicate and use words. It's versatile.
whispered ‘trust me'.--wonderful break given the I lied in the next strophe.

I lied,
In the half moon, nail marked silence,--love nail marked silence
My fingertips cracked each vertebrate back.--feels like the punctuation should be maybe a dash instead of a period
A bubble wrap salute in time--bubble wrap is a beautiful image for the crack of the vertebrate
with the
headboard
and the
wall.

I lay, unsatisfied, a tremor of--unsatisfied is too telly and unneeded with what you have here
Impatience rumbling through my thighs,
shifting the bone white tectonics in my feet.--love the rest of this

I lie, supine.--again not liking supine. I think it's much stronger to end on lie
Very nice piece Lottie.

Best,

Todd
The secret of poetry is cruelty.--Jon Anderson
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Messages In This Thread
Supine - by Lottie90 - 10-10-2012, 06:55 PM
RE: Supine - by billy - 10-10-2012, 07:50 PM
RE: Supine - by rowens - 10-10-2012, 11:09 PM
RE: Supine - by Todd - 10-10-2012, 11:59 PM
RE: Supine - by Lottie90 - 10-11-2012, 02:48 AM
RE: Supine - by billy - 10-11-2012, 11:13 AM
RE: Supine - by addy - 10-11-2012, 11:41 AM



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