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Original poem reprinted online here: "The Young Husband" by Marianne Boruch Originally read: May 24, 2013 More information about the Poet: Marianne Boruch  The poem is written in couplets which is quite fitting because the scene of the poem has to deal with a husband and wife having conversation with his wife. But I do want to note the title first, "The Young Husband."  While husband is defined as is in the poem, "young" in all its denotations: like age and lack of experience gets explored in the poem.  But the first couplet, "All vision is / peripheral: sideways, and under eave" comes off as didactic like the speaker is pointing out "though this is how you should read this poem -- this is the core of the poem."  The following is more of an exposition  -- "the young husband / on his cell to his wife, talking, smoking." Here's where the poem starts to focus, "not talking, no longer waiting / to tell the strange part. /...

Original poem reprinted online here: "Pencil" by Marianne Boruch  Originally read: April 10, 2013 More information about the Poet: Marianne Boruch "Look, think, make a mark ," is the core idea in the poem.  Even though the quote refers to the drawing teacher, look how those words affected the speaker.  Now, the poem could go into a nostalgic trip where the speaker looks, thinks, and makes a mark.  The poem does indeed do this but at the end, but the rest of stanza focuses on the idea of "look," "think" and "make a mark" In stanza two, the focus is on the visual.  The imagery shifts from "white" clouds "darken" with rain, and the ability to blur an image into something entirely different "little woolies on the hillside."  At this point, there's a sense of the "cute" in here.  But the "thought" comes in  from an outsider perspective, "Look, my teacher / would surely tell me, they...