Life as a board game

Dots and Boxes is a game like tic tac toe. How does love compare in your life to the claiming of lines that can be connected and the concomitant boxes that can be claimed.

Apophasis at the All Night Rite aid and other poems.

In the Apophasis poem, the poet 'not wanting to be alone' is shown the door to the moon.

Litany by Billy Collins that begins with an exact pin pointing of what 'you' are goes into an apophatic phase with what you are not.

A Brief poetics of the Hinge, an article by the poet Catherine Barnett is her search for hinge in poetry, where there is both movement and restriction like that offered by a tether. In Providence,

some of the best sermons

dont have endings, he said

comes to my mind as an example of the restriction and release. (A poetry exercise, map the dynamics of your poem to a physical object and vice-versa)

chorus is the title of many poems in this book. One thing the title helps with is the conectedness and the identification of the literal chorus for/of many voices. But with so many under that tag, readers will have to remember the first line of the poem for its ID. Couldnt these poems be put into one section with 'Chorus' subheaing and look for any other interesting internal theme.

Agape  is for word lovers, not the ones who like them by sounds but for those who like them for their meanings sometimes only and sometimes many.

Coming to the style of the poems, with so few lines and words, the reader is forced to think what the poet intended instead of just bagging nice phrases as low hung fruit and proceeding to the next poem. Having hooked the reader into the gap of the poem, there is no choice but to fill our thoughts after the question in Inventory, ii

Really, what chance do any of us have 

for moments of bliss?

But proceeding on without waiting for us to come up with suggestions, she  dismisses them.

Inventory

In Old story, The clock doesnt have an amygdala. With no Amygdale, there is no sympathy. As in the warning time and tide wait for none.  Whats natural than time and waves, but the measuring of them makes them so inorganic. In 'to speak of other things' gardens speak in a way reminiscent of the serpent eating its tail. Styrofoam in 'Scavenger hunt' shows an imbalance of  biodegradable activity and chemical nonbiodegradable inactivity.

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