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Poem found here:  "Current" by Alan Soldofsky Disclaimer:  So I've known Alan for years and when his poem popped up on the front page of Poets.org, I wanted to analyze this.  I don't know if me announcing I know the guy matters at all except for I admit my bias. So let's start, shall we?  The beginning line foreshadows the entire theme of the poem, "I'm careful where I step."  Not what's stated but the structure of the poem. Regardless of the beauty around, the speaker can't help but intrude in it, analyze it, and not be a part of the current. As with the majority of Alan Soldofsky poems, a reader has to pay special attention to the verbs: [...] Water ripples greenish blue against hot sand; pebbles mixed with quartz grains and pine needles, sharp amid the duff, blown down from the upper stories of the sugar pines clumped along the beach. Kids falling off paddle boards into the cold lake, voices like stretched brake linings in the dry air. [E...

Original poem reprinted online here:  "Sense of Place" by Alan Soldofsky Originally read: Three years ago (?) More information about the Poet: Alan Soldofsky I remember reading earlier drafts of this poem, and now I see it as the first poem on the Poetry Flash site for the past couple of months on the left hand side -- first poem featured.  I thought, well, might as well analyze this because I do think this is the core poem in Alan Soldofky's collection, In the Buddha Factory . But first, what I remembered from a previous draft of the poem.  Back in 2010, I probably went to Alan Soldofsky's, the director of San Jose State's MFA program, office for some school related advice, probably knowing where I stand in the MFA program, or how many credits I needed to graduate.  At the time he was working on In the Buddha Factory  and the manuscript was probably in its seventh to eighth draft.  I think I got direct and brief answers to my questions which I do not reme...