DDCPoetry

Original poem reprinted online here:  "Paper" by Stephen Ackerman Originally read: July 7, 2013 More information about the Poet: Stephen Ackerman How paper is used in this poem.  But not actual paper, more like the various usages of paper in conversation, or in play but not in a direct way.  The construction of the poem doesn't allow any sort of individual definition or offshoot to be an emphasis since the poem is a single stanza.  What this opens up though is forced connections, as though to make sense of something well known on paper.  Like knowing the definition of "the." First usage, "looks good on paper."  The idiom "we looked good on paper" is used, and expanded upon, "'To be young, beautiful, professional / stood them through the processional / but not many years beyond.'"  And through the explanation, "they papered over their differences".  Verb form of paper as in to gloss over.  The overall tone of the pi...