11-28-2015, 10:54 PM
I couldn't figure out in the end what deep profundity you were being so obscure about.
The poem's problem is that everything in it is incomprehensible, starting with the absurd wondering about whether you've seen blankness as a reflection in a preacher's eyes. That for me smacks of a put-on Deepak Chopra meets St Augustine brand of fake philosophising ruining everything else in the poem even if the rest of it were rewritten by Dylan Thomas.
The poem's problem is that everything in it is incomprehensible, starting with the absurd wondering about whether you've seen blankness as a reflection in a preacher's eyes. That for me smacks of a put-on Deepak Chopra meets St Augustine brand of fake philosophising ruining everything else in the poem even if the rest of it were rewritten by Dylan Thomas.