04-21-2016, 08:44 AM
I like this! and know the feeling all too well. A couple comments below that may be helpful.
(04-21-2016, 12:42 AM)Todd Wrote: Outside the hum and buzzReally like this!
close crowded clicking
of katydids -- Love this beginning.
Under the dry
light of the forest
flowers are motionless
unmoving
like stationary pinwheels -- and this is even better. I was going to object to pairing "motionless" and "unmoving" but I see how it works after all. "dry light" is gorgeous.
The wild trees
bare of leaves
seem like insomniacs -- Yes, and here I want a tiny bit more acknowledgement that this is an insomniac speaking -- maybe "fellow insomniacs" or the like?
It is near dawn
I stand in the dirt
shifting from foot to foot -- really love this depiction
knowing the end
will be nothing like this -- and I am not sure about this. But it grows on me. At first though I thought, how come we are talking about "the end"? all of a sudden (aside from it being the end of the poem but I don't think you meant that.) It grows on me though as an appropriately mysterious place to conclude the piece.

