Sharing the Last Mandarin(edit 2)
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(09-10-2024, 10:12 AM)brynmawr1 Wrote:  The Mandarin

Squat and plump, inviting …. A good choice of words… onomatopoeic 
skin orange so pliant, …removing ‘in the bowl’ has helped tighten it up 
so easily undressed- … great line 
tip of thumb working
the cleft of skin and flesh
where scent becomes sweetness ..: much better than ‘citrus’
a wash across the tongue; coverings
left forgotten. How delicious it is … I love ‘coverings left forgotten’ as it is a link back to the ‘undressed’ and completes the poem.
wanting another. … the end is a bit banal. A comma might introduce ambiguity and cleverness, but not a lot of it  
 
Squat and plump, inviting
in the bowl.
Orange skin, pliant;
so easily undressed-
tip of thumb working
the cleft
of skin and flesh, the scent
of citrus; a wash
of cool sweetness across
the tongue.
How delicious it is
to be perfectly made
for consumption.
It’s almost perfect.
The ending is a bit weak. It is a delicious expectation, or it is delicious, and the narrator wants one more, is an ambiguity that a comma can introduce. But it feels anticlimactic. There is no clever observation on the human condition, or a wise morality tale. Or just something extremely clever.

That’s my only gripe. Quite perfect otherwise.
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Sharing the Last Mandarin(edit 2) - by brynmawr1 - 09-10-2024, 10:12 AM
RE: The Mandarin - by Valerie Please - 09-10-2024, 10:21 AM
RE: The Mandarin - by brynmawr1 - 09-10-2024, 10:28 AM
RE: The Mandarin - by Tiger the Lion - 09-10-2024, 11:52 AM
RE: The Mandarin - by Knot - 09-10-2024, 10:59 PM
RE: The Mandarin - by brynmawr1 - 09-11-2024, 05:49 AM
RE: The Mandarin(edit) - by brynmawr1 - 09-14-2024, 06:26 AM
RE: The Mandarin(edit) - by Knot - 09-14-2024, 09:52 PM
RE: The Mandarin(edit) - by brynmawr1 - 09-15-2024, 12:31 AM
RE: The Mandarin(edit) - by Valerie Please - 09-15-2024, 01:15 AM
RE: The Mandarin(edit) - by brynmawr1 - 09-16-2024, 11:29 AM
RE: The Mandarin(edit) - by DeluxDelightful - 09-17-2024, 05:23 AM
RE: The Mandarin(edit) - by Knot - 09-15-2024, 01:19 AM
RE: The Mandarin(edit) - by Bunx - 09-16-2024, 03:06 AM
RE: The Mandarin(edit) - by DeluxDelightful - 09-16-2024, 03:42 AM
RE: The Mandarin(edit) - by busker - 09-16-2024, 06:30 AM



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