Nov. 2 - Churn and Break
in response to Churn and Break by George Bellows, 1913Boots firm on the lichen rich rock licked with spray,he pauses before descent,each step viscous as paintlaid dark in the foreground.He clutches...
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just love L2 soundwise, and the whole flow of the poem on the page. Line length, cadence... the muscularity and this: "the sky/ grows straight down" The vertiginous feel of this, skittery, and strong....
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Oh gosh, this is so vivid. I can see it. This is brilliant — so strong: Fish stark as lost speech. Hard fists of white sea, I also love the last two stanzas. And I like the way the speaker becomes...
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and this:Caughtin a stampede of strokes,the air grows explosive,a mass of gray.I puzzle a bit over "Wings borne of sea birds".
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I'm with Toni; that fish simile!!! I like the "granite torrent of time", too. And also the graceful little turn from describing to letting in the N's feeling about the subject, the worry. A good,...
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Came back to say how much I love the notion of the sea's fists! (But darn, I keep reading the title as "Chum and Break." Really a different meaning!)
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