Scheherazade (or why men die younger than their wives)

[Erthona]

Thanks for your comments C-O-W (Ha, I wasn't expecting your initials to spell out that, don't mean anything by it, only left it because it caught me off hand)

I will think about what you have said. Thank you for taking the time to put forth the effort whether I use anything someone suggests or not I am always grateful as it causes me to consider, so any genuine critique is a valid critique, and so I consider this.

" Is the horn stepping on feet or does it have cat's feet?
on little death’s feet."

This is an allusion to Carl Sandburg's "Fog".     Fog


Thematically the idea is that one can be physically alive but spiritually dead. It is a theme that runs through many of my poems. Here is another I have just recently written along the same theme The Eighties

I think it is a response to Lincoln's assassination (which I have been reading some on lately) as it freed him from the severe depression with which he lived. Further it is an exploration of this idea that a person should be forced to continue to live. I'm not coming down on either side, I am just exploring it. Look forward to hearing more from you.

Best,


dale