DDCPoetry

Poem Found Here:   "Morning Sun" by Cathy Park Hong It's the structure of the poem that resonates with me at the end.  Yes, everything in between seems like a fast zig zag of voice, person, character, subject matter, seriousness, play, and so forth, but the first two lines sets up how this poem is read for me, "Raised on a cozy diet of conditional love, / I learned to emoji from teevee" There are two conceptual things in play here 1) the diminishing of emotional connection between self, situation, and action and 2) the portraying of scenes, regardless of gravity, as colloquial and distant as possible.  For example the first scene:        Now I’m hounded by gripes before my time.       Twisted in my genome is this thorn,                     and all I see are feuds,       even swans got boxing gloves for heads. plays with the surreal with "swans got boxing gloves for heads" b...