06-04-2015, 04:54 AM
I'm really ill equipped for a poem like this, but I'll give it a shot. Maybe this is about getting an X-ray or something. I think you might be able to use the title to explain what is going on in the poem.
(06-03-2015, 02:49 PM)Animal Riots Activist Wrote: Ultraviolent Deluge (working title) -- Why is this the title? Do you feel this title is performing the function of a title?I liked it. I think it could be more clear. I feel like there should be at least a superficial level of accessibility to meaning which you can then build on. However, I'm talking out of my butt here.
The surgeon sun sits -- The cool thing about this line is that I instinctively want sun to be the word "son." However, the poem can't be nonsense either unless it is like Lewis Carroll nonsense or something.
where sky is a broken femur, -- I'm not sure how the sky looks like a femur, but maybe there is method to this.
where mountains are a ribcage. - I like that you are sticking with the metaphor here.
Its all very neat -- I think this is a typo where you meant It's.
me feeling in tension
its all very clever and I am
a toy theory.
If I could control these gravitas,
the souls corona would be
re-appropriated and all other
lighthouses would be outlawed. -- I'm not sure how to use spaces like this, but I would research it if you haven't. There may also be a metrical hiccup in this line.
I literally -- I think the word "literally" could definitely work as a good component to a short line like this if you explore the word adequately.
cannot read
another
bite. Anachronistic enough?
Wholesome enough?
Brackish enough? -- The pacing is pretty good here, but I am a little lost. Perhaps others can follow.
Come on little gamma ray,
whistle the sound of
trees falling in the sand
of a poorly lit nocturne; -- This certainly sounds pretty in my head.
its all very pretty -- Not sure if you intentionally befuddled it's with its.
if there’s noon there to -- I'm a fan of this noon here because I'm tending towards no one when I read it, which would work with the overall anticlimactic ending of thematic disavowal.
hear it. Yellow-grey
on the navy’s blues,
lying supine on
transparent cellophane
bed frames, so that the snow
speaks of sunburns.
This is cancer at it’s finest, -- You may have meant its, or not.
a cyst in the eye of a sinner,
cold shiners up and over
the inner walls of the spinal
column in today’s newspaper
at the end of the world.
It’s too hot out.

