DDCPoetry

Original poem reprinted online here: "Tense" by Cullen Bailey Burns More information about the Poet:   Cullen Bailey Burns Written in couplets where the focus of the poem is on the construction on the first and last stanza, but the rest of the poem is trying to hint at a relationship that either neither becomes fully formed or is malformed.  I know, one is set in the creation and one is set in the aftermath, but the medium doesn't pop to me (the middle of the poem) as the beginning and end does. "Am smitten, I said, and the grass lay still, / and him on it, and I barely lied."  Here is a variety of puns and subject/object play here.  When the speaker admits "Am smitten" the object should follow, right?  And when the object is "the grass lay still" there's something odd going on construction wise; furthermore, the enjambment of "him" to the next line brings doubt to what the speaker is smitten with (currently) the lack of movemen...