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Originally Posted by Mary Meriam
I'll guess this is David Callin's fine, precise voice and thought. I love a poem with a lot of end-stopped lines. It makes the enjambments all the more moving.
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Not me, Mary! (As we all now know.) But I am immensely flattered that you should think so. (Julie will, I am sure, be - understandably - somewhat less flattered by the comparison.)
Stupidly, I've come late to all of these - I thought we had much longer to comment and vote (note to self: RTFR, stupid) - but I too think this is terrific, and I didn't think the cleverness, which is undeniable, detracts from the power or emotional effect of the close.
I haven't read the others yet - although I do see that
Desilu, which I love, has reappeared here - but if there is a better sonnet than this my flabber will be well and truly gasted.
Well done, Julie!
David