DDCPoetry

Original poem reprinted online here: "Corpse Flower, Luna Moth," by Daniel Tobin More information about the Poet: Daniel Tobin So I want to start with the last stanza of the poem:               to say something    wordlessly -- the word we too              can neither speak                       nor sing. And this poem seems like a stream of consciousness song -- that the title, "Corpse flower,  Luna Moth" are connected through image and the speaker is trying to find out more through language, image, song, and just thought.  But there are hiccups along the way to anchor the speaker to the image as the adjectives to the subject anchor meaning.  Also since the lines are so short and the alignment, which fluctuates with each line, have a structural importance, I'm going to fluctuate between the line and the form as a I quote them depending wh...