Along with 'Disenchantment Bay' also featured here, this is one of the Sphere's finest, I think.
I agree totally with Petra that what blows the reader away in this poem is how it conveys the unsaid. The thing is not said, but nothing remains unsaid. And so much more than the unsaid thing is encompassed. The poem seems to let the whole world in. I think this aspect of the poem is magic - it takes my breath away each time I read it.
The last two lines of S2 are simply beautiful, too.
I could meditate inside this poem, small and expansive at the same time. Local and universal.
Love it.
Cally
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