DDCPoetry

Original poem reprinted online here: "What the Dead Know" by Robert Polito Originally read: March 13, 2013 More information about the Poet:  Robert Polito The form of the poem interests me.  The poem starts out with a lot of white space and the line center adjusted, the next line left adjusted, and the poem continues to follow this pattern.  The pattern adds a sense of duality to the poem (yes, I write this a lot), but the type of duality that follows a pattern.  The first stanza is where I had trouble at first because there's a lot of description, but they all refer to air.  Duh, right?  But the description of air is very complex because even though the focus should be air, the simile of. "Air here is like the water / Of an aquarium"  and so there comes a visual image of air as water which are conflicting images, but work because the description fits both air and water.  For example "appearing cold (and clear) as spring streams / Fed by snow and ...