Original poem reprinted online here: "I used to think everything was part of a larger conversation" by Weston Cutter Originally read: August 28, 2013 More information about the Poet: Weston Cutter The line alignment and the content of the poem creates metaphors, general and personal, about disconnect. But the poem is not only about disconnect and what's disconnected, the poem comes off also as an experiment to list as many disconnects as possible while, somewhat, staying on topic. "but maybe there's only the boats / susurrating to the buoys + shore" The first images go with the idea of boats and shore (as connected with the plus sign) and the distance is where the speaker can tell, "you're either from a where I now, a place / which kisses some lake too much / to call anything other than great," note the hard allusion to "great" as in "Great Lakes" which I'm not 100% positive that the allusion goes to, but my mind ...
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