06-30-2023, 11:21 PM
(06-29-2023, 08:48 AM)TranquillityBase Wrote: W4T (Writing for Therapy)Hi TqB,
Exiled from sunset Exiled I get, but a little lost on what 'sunset' signifies, sleep?
I don’t know which way is best I agree with Duke, would work better if it matched the meter of the other lines in the stanza
to escape the lies
I smell on your breath. these last two lines are great
These are the hot months: I like this line. To me it refers to a period of being uncomfortable maybe with anger involved
you sit there so still I read this as frustration of inaction which leads into the next two great lines of being fixated/frozen on the reflection/being myopic.
as if you were all mirrors
except the one that you fill.
I’ve questioned my sanity
offering tears at every halt. halt here is a little awkward and feels forced for the rhyme at the end
My answers, loyal and quiet,
demand a little more fault. I wonder if there is another way to express this that might open up for better pairing with L2 above. What I hear here is the narrator wanting the other to express more ownership of the situation, maybe?
An inside job, says the expert,
speaking in erasable ink
so this mainline cultist
can see what he thinks. I get a little lost on this last stanza but I think I've figured it out as explained below but it's a little confusing linking the nouns and pronouns and references.
Every stanza is very strong, I think. I made some observations noted above. The first few times through, I was reading it as if the narrator is referring to a separate person but then I realized that it works just as well, or better read as the narrator referring to themselves. Especially really taking the title into account. This made the last stanza clearer for me but, as I noted above, I am still having some trouble parsing it out.
Strong piece!
Bryn

