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  Snow would most likely be outside the window so I'm not sure this change is necessarily necessary. Although there's nothing wrong with being literal, I guess.   "Through" the window suggested the phrase "through the looking glass". Guess this might be a kind of Alice poem but I didn't think that ...

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Great first post George, welcome, I read this as a poem about loneliness. The last line conjures up a kind of bridal virginity as against forced celibacy. I am picturing an Eleanor Rigby figure here. I caught a little on "through the window" Somehow "through"  seems like a movement rather than "as s...

I really like the dilemma presented in this one. Fabulous analogy for any number of relatable human situations. Clammy hands illustrates the disfunctioning, body perfectly--no clue as to why the body disfunctions: the ambiguity is wonderful----is the N experiencing remorse or a misplaced sense of th...

Thank you for the read and comments Ishmael, I'm not entirely certain myself what kind of image i'm going for in the "light arcs" line. I think it might be a 30,000 foot view of the vari-colored commercial lights of the evening. I meant to play on the word arc as a double meaning between the product...

Doctor Doolittle
come quick! The pushmi-pullyu
tore itself apart!

Yes. I need to know what you REALLY meant. Did I get it right? how right did I get it? as right as there are stars in the sky, waters in the oceans?

Yes Colm, see to it that it never happens again. :( I am terrified of accidentally supporting him or his minions. I wonder how much of what is going on just now makes it over the Atlantic. It came up in Cohen's testimony 2 days ago that Trump had him (Cohen ) find a straw bidder to run up the biddin...

I am reminded of the Phillip Glass piece in which there are spoken parts to effect of "john how much do you love me?" John gives an answer to the effect of " more than there are stars in the sky until the end of the universe" or some such thing. Then she says "yes, but do you really love me?" and so...

Homesick Tracy? So Lutheranism doesn't quite qualify as Christianity? Come to think of it, what does? The contrast between the Indian wars on the very land upon which the town was founded and acknowledgement of Mandela halfway around the world is a wonderful example of the paradoxes with which we li...