DDCPoetry

 Poem found here: "Afternoon Infusion" by Aaron Caycedo-Kimura Questions I have when reading this poem the first time: I wonder why endstopped stanzas in this narrative poem.  Does each stanza represent a scene?  Nothing really blends in together. What is Ubasute ?  Does the poem explain the concept enough or is it something that I should look up more? How do people use place in poems?  How does the mention of Santa Rosa here add to the poem or maybe collection? Each stanza should be taken as an individual scene of a story taking part in different locations: physically and mentally.  For example the first stanza: She panics three hellos as if startled by the noise of an empty house, calls from St. Joseph's: the nurses are slow to start her hydration. With the opening stanza we are in medias res -- in the middle of a scene.  How this observer is omniscient and knows the psychological aspect of her of someone who panics and the physical aspect of her not...