Grace To You

[RiverNotch]

Grace To You
 
all day in my head
ran the starts and stops
of Normandy, Normandy, Normandy, Nor…
 
 
 
I’ve had eleven beers
with my prescribed Clonazepam
and only just stopped shaking.

I'm lost at the title and at line three. Title's introduction of "you" makes me scratch my head, since I can't identify who "you" is: the speaker blessing us, absolutely absent from the piece, or the speaker being blessed by the title, which begs the question of why the introduced ambiguity? There's also a lack of Grace-ful imagery in the piece, which may just be a limitation of a more theological mindset -- or it may be that the two presented thoughts, that of the speaker's shaking being so strong it needs that much more alcohol with the drug, or that of the speaker committing suicide, are still too obliquely tied to the more general idea of grace for the title to work. As for line three, although it immediately evokes D-Day, as with Leanne, it also makes me ask from which perspective does the piece really come from, especially since the language of the piece doesn't date it sufficiently, and I don't expect there to be much Normandy veterans still getting trauma-drunk nearly 75 years from the landings.