Original poem reprinted online here: "We Come Elemental" by Tamiko Beyer Originally read: June 22, 2013 More information about the Poet: Tamiko Beyer The collective experience. After rereading this poem again and looking at my notes, I can see why past me was looking more at the technique than the content. The technique changes every couple of stanzas. The images, more or less, seem to go through a consistent thread, but tone, punctuation, style changes as though to temper the described journey of the poem. The first stanza deals with tactile imagery, as the "we" step into humid light, "It sticks to our skin / and microbes gorge / in grey water runoff pools." The first image being so tactile transfers over the "microbes." This stanza feels more like a cause and effect. Humid light sticks to skin; therefore, microbes gorge on "sweat" (assuming the image of "greywater runoff pools" refers to sweat"). This sort of du...
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