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Re: WALKING IN FOG: stunning
Dear Ted, I think that the poet (or the narrator) is contrasting his own reactions to the physical circumstances to the quite different reactions of his friend. It is he who has the foreboding of the unknown and the uncertain, in facing his friend's impending death. It is she who embraces these things in facing her own impending death. I believe ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on September 3, 2008
Re: Paul Breslin's powerful, panic-prone poem
Hi Ted, I didn't think the poem ''powerful'' or ''panic-prone'' -- but then, I don't live by a fire station like PB does, and a siren (disconcerting as it is to me) doesn't make me think of my own past griefs (or anger, or guilt, or pain) or my future death. I simply don't have the common ground to either write as PB did about or to react as you ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 24, 2008