The Past Mends Her

[Lizzie]

thanks for the critique. i have never been sure about this poem. it's one of my more experimental efforts. i think i primarily have 3 different ways of writing [with some overlap], which tend to produce 3 different styles, and this one represents the most unsatisfying, to me. however, there is something about it that i obviously like enough to keep coming back to it. i don't know.
anyway, the only thing i would disagree with is you ask "and no one knows"--about what? maybe i am being slow, but doesn't this clearly follow from the last line? that is, rearranged it would read "no one knows [that] i collect the things that hurt".

oh, also, i hate the title.

Yeah, I understood how it related to the previous line, I just thought that some allusion to what kinds of things are collected would be good detail to put in.

It seems stupid now, and I wish I hadn't said that.