Original poem reprinted online here: "Muffin of Sunsets" by Elaine Equi Originally read: May 24, 2013 More information about the Poet: Elaine Equi The poem opens up with the humorous line, "The sky is melting. Me too." Furthermore, what the opening line does is create a hyperbolic analogy which the reader accepts when going forward with the poem. Therefore, the suspension of disbelief is stretched in the poem. "Pink between the castlework / of buildings." The image has a strong sense of color but also note the "castlework" in which the word brings a sense of structural aesthetic to the building as well which is thrown off balance with the next stanza of, "pensive syrup / drizzled over clouds" which brings a humorous tension. All these aspects brought in: hyperbole, humor, structure, image, foreshadows the split stanzas. The stanzas are in couplets up to this point with the single line, "It is almost catostrophic how heavenly...
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