09-27-2013, 05:44 PM
Thank you both for your honest and thoughtful feedback
I did feel that this poem felt like a snippet more than a self-contained piece, but didn't quite articulate it. The year was chosen, I'll admit, simply because it rhymed with "tree".
I did feel that this poem felt like a snippet more than a self-contained piece, but didn't quite articulate it. The year was chosen, I'll admit, simply because it rhymed with "tree".
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." - Gene Wolfe