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Delightful! With a great closing line.  My first question was whether "angles" in Line 1 is a typo.  The mention of "grid" and later text suggests that there is no typo.  So after rolling "angels" around for a while, I am still at a loss as to which word functions better.  Each sort of subliminally ...

I remember this Vintage Indar gem. A wonderful poem, like the reader is gazing out the window of the Starliner.  But I wonder into what era?  Would the images of the poem correspond to what a passenger might today observe from a lounge car window.

T

 

Dan Patch--I grew up holding him, at the instance of the authority of my father, in the same regard as Joe Luis and Honus Wagner.  I enjoy all the memories loosely tethered to the threads of this poem.  How interesting and compelling is the image of the high school football practice flashing in the ...

I couldn't get the audio to fire up. I used to use SoundCloud, but the site made some changes which rendered the platform less designed for my purposes.  Not sure what I am doing wrong.  I'll keep trying.

Cheers.

T

I love this Gyppo. Animal POV poems are both challenging and intriguing. You have done exceedingly well with this. After reading your preamble, I just had to pull out the cat poem I wrote back in the MWC days:     Co-Author Paws padding, I never hear before she drops in a crouch on the corner of my ...

This presents such a succinct juxtaposition, which so strongly makes the point.  Stunning to recall -- violence against women being such a cultural staple that that the threat is used as humor. How does it look to you if S.2 is made present-tense?  The brevity of this multiplies its force.   Very cr...

Brilliant---

drawn from the rocks of earth,

bears memory of water, dreams of flight,
the lands, the forests, the temples of our ancestors.

Witty, engaging, endearing.  Very nice,

T

Great picture!  Love it. Here's one from me: https://i.imgur.com/gCnzTpj.jpg The devolution of yard art is so quintessentially American--and not in a good way.  Pink plastic flamingos, ok.  Figurines of black  boys fishing? Fourth of July approaches.  How about a life-sized  George Wallace wrapped i...