DDCPoetry

Original poem reprinted online here:  "Item:" by Angie Estes Originally read: January 15, 2013 More information about the Poet:  Angie Estes "This poem hinges on this colon because the context of the poem changes from poem, to definition."  I somewhat agree with past me.  The title having a colon does set-up a poem to be read differently; however, it's not until I read the poem over again (from the first time I read it) that I saw how the colon worked in the poem.  Does the poem hinge on the punctuation?  For me, Yes.  Does the poem change to a definition?  For good and bad, maybe.  It's a definition poem so there's a little of the sterile (definition) and there's a little of the literary (poetry) in here. So the italics in the first lines sets up a context to the definition, " a beautiful hours, very well / and richly illuminated "  These lines state that items are like this but also how the reader should look at the following definitio...