DDCPoetry

Poem found here:  "Atmosphere" by Maxine Chernoff Montaigne The existential crisis brought on by the surroundings or what is there to think about trapped because of the atmosphere? "Rain pummels windows, words unshake trees"  Note the shift between image and metaphor and how the combine together without an conjunction, they just exist together.  But, for me, the metaphor has the greater impact in the line because I'm curious what "words" the speaker is referring to.  "I have not looked outside all-night."  In any case these words aren't visual, something maybe more auditory or conjured in the mind. "As if distance were merely a loose wire."  Loose wire to what?  I think the idea here is how someone deals with a loose wire -- a reconnect from distance.  "We are talking, nowhere but here / and here, my love."  Something tells me to take the idea of talking as connecting with a grain of salt due to the previous line which...

Original poem reprinted online here: "White T-Shirt" by Lewis Ellingham Originally read: March 5, 2013 More information about the Poet: Lewis Ellingham So color is prevalent in this poem, and when I mean prevalent, I mean the symbol of the color white -- pure,  and black -- reclusive, nothing.  Both represented by white (young man) and black (speaker/atmosphere.other parts of the man).  So the speaker, the atmosphere, and the man himself are basically the same thing because the physical surroundings surrounding this white shirt stands out, the scenery and thoughts just fade into the mundane and the shirt is set up as totemic. I think I'm getting too far into it. Yes, I use the ambiguous pronoun of "it" because this is how the poem starts, "I caught sight of it at a bust stop."  Now, I usually don't like the use of ambiguous pronouns, but after reading a couple of poems with them and how the noun operates -- I get a sense of this.  When "it...