DDCPoetry

Original poem reprinted online here: "The Hole at the Bottom of the Pool" by Caroline Maun  Originally read: September 16, 2013 More information about the Poet:   Caroline Maun The poem starts out with a linguistically playful line, "The pool was aquamarine serene;" which is then played upon with the surreal descriptions like, "sometimes it was also the belly / of a whale."  Furthermore, the interaction with the pool is play as well, "me / macro-poloing in that microcosm."  But within the first stanza there are little snippets of the serious, "voluntarily, temporarily blind." or "In that riot / it was impossible to square cause and effect."  Note that the application of the serious went from sort of fun prsonal to a rhetorical sort of question that feels like hindsight.  now what appears before the speaker:      Even in stillness, the wind picked up      a few waves and threw light      on the white stucco. The s...