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Even if such a deep love manifests itself in things like washing dishes together, perhaps there are more engaging ways of communicating such a relationship. Romeo and juliet didn't do any housework together. ;) Oh Ishmael, Honey---Romeo and Juliet were a couple of crazy kids---I went through that s...

Thanks Colm, BTW I'm glad to see you back--I worry over your unexplained absences. So---about the prosiness--refer to a poem I posted here a while ago: "I'd Like to Ask You a Question". There is a discussion re: prosey poems that seems to have garnered some interest---either that of the odometer spu...

I Used to Love Flash Gordon Saturday matinee serials: half-hour dramas that stop just when the hero is at the dead end while villians ride up the box canyon; or Ming the Merciless  seized the girl-- to be continued at some unknown point in the future . Life is like that:  somewhere the hero might ha...

...a strange world out there sometimes. 44 reads and you're the first post, Colm. Thanks.

I'm still reeling from Spot's death

Maybe I'll find words after the Holidays

If, every time you post a poem, you listen to what everyone says you will become a master of the 2-word poem

Oh I think Colm and I agree on most of those middle stanzas. its the dust and sun that took me to some desert outpost for a moment.

I would love to see the moon shards and crystals forming on the windows even more conflated as if it involves some metaphysical cause and effect. Dust, IMO has no place in the imagery. I believe it is meant to convey the formation and then loss of crystal imagery as an analogy for the coming and goi...

Oh Marc,

I see I missed your comments---and good one's they were--I agree with "knowing it when we see it". Thank you so much for the read and thoughtful comments

(And make no mistake, I think reviewing poetry is one of the hardest things to do.)

Thanks for the read and good feedback Dan,

I think I've learned more about poetry reviewing the poetry of others than maybe anything I've read or written myself.