07-15-2016, 12:21 AM
Shay,
If it's interesting to you, here's some hints, because your read was extraordinary. You caught lots of things and I'm wanting to reassure you they were intended. That is, where you're confused, I was inviting a deeper read. So:
No typo in the title. It's meant to be a verb. The poem analogizes a cicada's metamorphosis to a person's.
A ladle offends a dry place the way a car would offend a person on a small desert island. It's offensive because its utility depends on resources that aren't available. It marks "you" as an interloper.
The bead indicates scarcity. Not prayer beads; a single prayer bead. It's referenced again in the final stanza.
The silo is the interlopers storehouse of grain; the narrator just knows something good is in there. This anticipates the interloper whispering wheat; it's an answered prayer. Again, the tiny bit of water in S6 comes back in the final stanza.
Decimates is a noun.
The drone is a reference to cicadas.
The shattered sun is about a prism and about gutting the winter land of standalone meaning.
None of the above suggestions is mandatory or anything. Just because it can be read that way doesn't mean other constructions are in error. But you did such a fine job . . . just wanted to respond
If it's interesting to you, here's some hints, because your read was extraordinary. You caught lots of things and I'm wanting to reassure you they were intended. That is, where you're confused, I was inviting a deeper read. So:
No typo in the title. It's meant to be a verb. The poem analogizes a cicada's metamorphosis to a person's.
A ladle offends a dry place the way a car would offend a person on a small desert island. It's offensive because its utility depends on resources that aren't available. It marks "you" as an interloper.
The bead indicates scarcity. Not prayer beads; a single prayer bead. It's referenced again in the final stanza.
The silo is the interlopers storehouse of grain; the narrator just knows something good is in there. This anticipates the interloper whispering wheat; it's an answered prayer. Again, the tiny bit of water in S6 comes back in the final stanza.
Decimates is a noun.
The drone is a reference to cicadas.
The shattered sun is about a prism and about gutting the winter land of standalone meaning.
None of the above suggestions is mandatory or anything. Just because it can be read that way doesn't mean other constructions are in error. But you did such a fine job . . . just wanted to respond
A yak is normal.