09-04-2014, 04:54 PM
Edit #1
Proofread:
Here
You wake up with that look I like[,]
and I smile back with squinted eyes[,]
like the sun is shining[,] here[,] in this bed.
Soon, you will leave me[,] as usual[,] and the sky will not fall,
though it will rain enough to swamp the street gutters.
--swamp? Fill with mud, etc? Or do you mean swell or clog?
You are a pricey plane ticket to Granada[,] purchased too late,
the warm Andalucían air that I dream of but have never felt,
[and] the vertigo of transition turning my stomach.
--add and to the first of the line or an elopes to the end
I’m haunted by your leaving,
the calm that follows saying goodbye,
the howl of the Union Pacific steel trains coming and going.
--ditto as the previous stanza
With the fog still drooping about the modest field,
the sun has never seemed so hesitant to start over.
--this is a toughy. Technically, "so" should anticipate a that clause . . . No, it's not tough--replace "so" with "as" or cut it
Proofread:
Here
You wake up with that look I like[,]
and I smile back with squinted eyes[,]
like the sun is shining[,] here[,] in this bed.
Soon, you will leave me[,] as usual[,] and the sky will not fall,
though it will rain enough to swamp the street gutters.
--swamp? Fill with mud, etc? Or do you mean swell or clog?
You are a pricey plane ticket to Granada[,] purchased too late,
the warm Andalucían air that I dream of but have never felt,
[and] the vertigo of transition turning my stomach.
--add and to the first of the line or an elopes to the end
I’m haunted by your leaving,
the calm that follows saying goodbye,
the howl of the Union Pacific steel trains coming and going.
--ditto as the previous stanza
With the fog still drooping about the modest field,
the sun has never seemed so hesitant to start over.
--this is a toughy. Technically, "so" should anticipate a that clause . . . No, it's not tough--replace "so" with "as" or cut it
A yak is normal.

