Plain Songs from Tranquillity Base

[TranquillityBase]

I love the staccato renderings, imagery. The references to time and its ambiguity is well-fashioned. The narrator, however lovesick, cannot extricate himself from the litany of paramours, his "tribes of love." I rather enjoyed the conclusion, the final two lines especially. There is much here to unravel, tqb. It is certainly harrowing....I sympathize with the narrator and his tribulations in love, lust. And this is just one reading, one extraction among many themes which I will address upon my second reading. Thanks for sharing this: dense, but with a corporeal, immediate, and carnal undertone.

Brian,

The first person I showed this to gave me a one word critique: "lovelorn".  I think that about sums it up.  I'm glad the time jumps were not onerous for you.
Thanks for reading it.

TqB