Thirty-Two Years Later
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(06-09-2017, 10:24 PM)71degrees Wrote:  Hello 71. I know this is in mild but a line by line would help me to read the piece with confidence. As it is I wince inwardly (only slightly) at some of the phrasing...in another room I could argue that it matters not a jot because this is quintessentially an exercise in form. The obscurity is a side issue which I do not intend involving myself with.
She pulls her eyes Though a startling opener I am not yet able to say why because I do not yet know who "she" is...and may never know. Have you consdered at the very least giving "she" a name?
out of their sockets,
holds them tightly
in each hand,
and tells me, Though you say she "tells" you, she does not. To "tell" is to impart information. This next stanza does not "tell"...it merely "says". You may find a better way of introducing her "offer" which would be more salient. Again, I am not interpreting meaning but questioning the clarity of the phrasing.

         "See the things
         I have seen,
         the wonders. I cannot but feel that this sentence has been cut off at the knees...you see, I don't know who this benefactor is. She may have been to Disney World but you may have seen the Grand Canyon from space.
         This is my gift
         to you."

I hold them close to me,
try to look through them. Most unnatural. The complexity of confusion "seen" by everyone when dreaming. Please don't make it a dream.

I suppose it is the law
of nature their warm sight
fades a bit to dry and hollow— Sorry, but verging on nonsensical...to put it mildly. In fact, I have no idea what this stanza means."fades a bit" is just sloppy and fade to dry and hollow is measuring distance in ounces.

But these eyes have seen
all the fragments of everything
good and bad ever seen— You have now lost your own thread so I have no chance. Read this stanza out loud, slowly then rewrite it with precision. It may still be obscure but it will be clearly obscure 

my hoary silence, the fat Hoary? Hoary...Huh?
of the day, a declensionI know very well what declension means...but what do you think it means?
of starlings against our sky.Err....quite. Lost me
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Thirty-Two Years Later - by 71degrees - 06-09-2017, 10:24 PM
RE: Thirty-Two Years Later - by The Four-Eyed Cat - 06-09-2017, 11:03 PM
RE: Thirty-Two Years Later - by nibbed - 06-09-2017, 11:41 PM
RE: Thirty-Two Years Later - by vagabond - 06-10-2017, 01:06 AM
RE: Thirty-Two Years Later - by Achebe - 06-10-2017, 01:11 PM
RE: Thirty-Two Years Later - by Szczepan - 06-11-2017, 09:42 PM
RE: Thirty-Two Years Later - by tectak - 06-12-2017, 01:15 AM



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