Bloodletting

[Jim Steele]

I don't know if its the message you intended, but being an introvert with a profound distaste of crowds, confrontations, and people who shout when there's no need for it, I frequently get the desire to disappear on an atomic level. The theme of anonymity that I got from this poem was comforting. Non-solid imagery, that was pretty consistent throughout, lent to the willo-the-wisp fantasy that was playing through my head as I read this. And, as somebody else said, the last line - "exhale" - it almost sounded like advice being given to the anxious speaker. Finally, I liked the overall structure - how you went from 5 lines to 4 lines to 3 lines and so on, down to a single word. Perhaps a visual nod to the theme of disintegration and the breaking down of physical matter into tiny pieces?