DDCPoetry

Original poem reprinted online here: "Move to the City" by Nathaniel Bellows Originally read: August 5, 2013 More information about the Poet: Nathaniel Bellows There are two important characters that the reader needs to follow.  The first is the speaker who has more of a commanding tone in the beginning with lines starting with strong verbs, but then goes on a narrative edge.  The second is the subject of whom the speaker addresses -- the subject is a little hazy at first and then becomes clearer and clearer as the poem progresses. The title blends into the poem and all the actions are in present tense, "live life as a stranger. Disappear / into frequent invention," and here the speaker is giving commands -- not suggestions -- to actually do something.  Note the emphasis on verbs and how phrases wrap around them. This next part, I feel, the key verb of "take" twists the poem a bit:      [...] For a night, take the name      of the person who'...