DDCPoetry

At Last by Etta James Listen to this a couple times over and then come back to this poem.  Or read this poem and then listen.  They are in conversation with each other.  But how much in conversation. The opening line of this poem and Etta James song deals with time with the poem starting off with time getting shorter every year, and Etta James singing her lonely days are over.  However, after the opening line the poem goes to a surreal trip down a memory lane "and we broke into sound the slightest lash of the / feather duster and we had bricks up our sleeves".  What type of sound did the speaker and this other break into?  A cry? A laugh? Does it matter?  A unified sound.  What does the bricks represent?  Maybe take a brick as a brick -- something that is thought of weight. you can't imagine and climbed three steps at a time-- though one of the version was we never got there or one of us got there first by banging the dashboard, though I'd sa...