07-02-2017, 12:48 AM
A great read with vivid imagery, a few comments below:
Thanks for sharing this, Keith - it's a lovely piece!
(07-02-2017, 12:23 AM)Keith Wrote: The kitchen was always in winter—its pantry Was always what in winter? It feels that the first sentence is missing a word after alwaysI hope you agree with the few comments that i've listed.
full of shadows, odours washed in damp soil
and bagged in the fields, picked-at, I feel that the comma after "picked-at" is unnecesarry here.
white boned carcasses draped
in tea towels set aside to rest.
Thin air wafted a sweetness that drizzled
on cooling cakes and offered up
a promise of fresh buttered bread. Gorgeous stanza!
The worn down work tops cut away to hands Perhaps cut 'the' in this sentence
that rolled out pastry, and set liquid jelly
outside to cool in the drifting snow.
A bottomless Belfast sink bubbled above
a makeshift step, positioned to giggle child-
labour onto chores. Adding an adjective to 'Chores' that reflects with 'giggle' would improve the final sentence while also filling it up
Its walls gleamed with fired green tiles crafted
flat, almost without seams. Stood in the doorway
between two poems, a child looked along their
mirrored finish, cast a spell—one arm one leg, Perhaps add apostrophes so the reader knows that these are the words that are being said
the words said, his body lifted off the ground.
Thanks for sharing this, Keith - it's a lovely piece!

