DDCPoetry

Poem Found Here:  "Orison" by Betsy Sholl Orision, a prayer. I think what interests me the most about this poem is the intimacy of items.  I could be facetious and ask, "did god really have this jacket."  However, the poem lends itself to a certain vulnerability that is both ignored and acknowledged. Let me  give back to God his jacket, his locket, his thin slippers, sunglint, sleetspit, stars. Note the "s" alliteration that moves along the poem as though to get through the poem in a momentum.  The poem does build with the images from jacket to stars, but the poem makes me wonder who the "God" represents in the poem.  Does this matter though?  I think the importance is what the speaker is letting go of. And here's my cracked, my sullen, unstrung guitar, hung like a rabbit in the butcher's window Of all things that feels like has sentimental value to the speaker, it's this guitar.  It's the way the guitar is described through the p...