DDCPoetry

Original poem reprinted online here:  "I Write You This on a Train Named for an Endangered Bird" by Kyle McCord Originally read: January 17, 2013 More information about the Poet: Kyle McCord After rereading this, I'm trying to figure out what the name of the endangered bird is.  The funny thing is is that the name of the bird is not important -- rather it's the loose end that's not answered in the poem. However, the whole question/answer, call/response idea doesn't come into effect until after the poem is done.  When I first read this poem, I felt this poem was only a stream-of-consciousness poem where the focus was entirely the directions the ideas were going.  For example, "like pitting your protagonist against an all-knowing, all-seeing jaguar spirit." which I past me thought was funny. Now I realize that this poem deals with duality not only  scene wise, but within the language itself.  Note how there's a separation between the first sentence...

Original poem reprinted online here: "Thanks for Remembering Us" by Dana Gioia Originally read: December 20, 2012 (so it says) More information about the Poet: Dana Gioia So the real meat of the poem happens at the end of the first stanza "Is one of us having an affair? / At first we laugh, and then we wonder."  I wrote down in a past analysis that this is a "hard turn."  Yet looking back this comment, I feel that the idea of a possible affair was foreshadowed or at least a turmoil in the marriage. Then in the second stanza I can't help but see the images of symbols in the relationship.  The slow decay of flowers with the more "sickly sweet" (which I call cliche in my original marks, but I think it still holds) changing into a smell like a funeral home. Now this is the point where I wrote this: "This is really good -- the lead up to the simile is lackluster description [looking back, visually the descriptions are a bit well not as great ...