I love this. It's so deft and clever in a dreamlike way. It's like the way our minds work at night. Against & against and the delicious ending. ( sorry it won't let me scroll back to quote exactly). Thanks for sharing this. I wondered if the journal had invited you bunch of amazing poets to contribute to this issue. Also I think for any poem we write entitled "poem beginning..." we have to credit you..."after Maggie Smith". It's in my brain now. Happy summer ☀️
I appreciate how the subject of the poem at the beginning is negative and by the time it has gone through the prism of the narrator's consciousness, it has become positive. From demanding and potentially exploitive, for sure disruptive, to "light."
I love this. It's so deft and clever in a dreamlike way. It's like the way our minds work at night. Against & against and the delicious ending. ( sorry it won't let me scroll back to quote exactly). Thanks for sharing this. I wondered if the journal had invited you bunch of amazing poets to contribute to this issue. Also I think for any poem we write entitled "poem beginning..." we have to credit you..."after Maggie Smith". It's in my brain now. Happy summer ☀️
Thank you, Lizzie. 💗
I appreciate how the subject of the poem at the beginning is negative and by the time it has gone through the prism of the narrator's consciousness, it has become positive. From demanding and potentially exploitive, for sure disruptive, to "light."