05-15-2016, 06:14 AM
"Is there a safe place?" is a question I hope the poem raises.
Maybe if I stated it "Whole forests fall..." that particular concern could be allayed? I honestly was walking at the edge of anything that could be interpreted or understood literally but perhaps that itself is too vague. (It has been on my mind with this, that very question of realism, though I am encouraged that some seem to go with it as written.)
I did mean to cover as much "ground" -- types of plants, types of creatures -- as I could within the poem as it is meant to have a universal reference and not just local or specific to any event. Again, that may not work well enough. Possibly it would be stronger if I moved it fully into more realistic specificity.
Thanks very much for your thoughtful comments.
Maybe if I stated it "Whole forests fall..." that particular concern could be allayed? I honestly was walking at the edge of anything that could be interpreted or understood literally but perhaps that itself is too vague. (It has been on my mind with this, that very question of realism, though I am encouraged that some seem to go with it as written.)
I did mean to cover as much "ground" -- types of plants, types of creatures -- as I could within the poem as it is meant to have a universal reference and not just local or specific to any event. Again, that may not work well enough. Possibly it would be stronger if I moved it fully into more realistic specificity.
Thanks very much for your thoughtful comments.