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  • Lesbian eisgesis is more like it

    That last line especially, Gretchen and NoStar, is not reminiscent of lesbian curiosity (with its potential for arousal), but of feeling ''un-woman-ed'' in the presence of a superior heterosexual specimen, just as a man can feel ''unmanned'' in a parallel presence of his own gender. I've been there and done that, as noted elsewhere. There is no ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 21, 2009
  • Re: "No Running in the Halls" - comments welcome

    The narrator is someone addressing the woman and quoting the girl she once was. The poem should be structured accordingly. I came up with a different solution overall, as you'll see below. wr ()()
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 14, 2009