10-10-2012, 11:59 PM
I always open a new thread from someone I haven't read yet and think: "I hope I like this." In your case, yeah, it's pretty good. Welcome to the site! Here are some comments for you:
Best,
Todd
(10-10-2012, 06:55 PM)Lottie90 Wrote: SupineVery nice piece Lottie.
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
Best,
Todd
The secret of poetry is cruelty.--Jon Anderson
