I very much like the non-rhyme.
'perfume of flesh' is the creepy give-away.
Not sure I understand 'chalked', and perhaps safe-room could be hyphenated, but this poem hits hard in the gut. I very much like the oddity of 'they lived here once' appearing twice; and wonder how much wd be changed with another echoing part-repetition, changing L4 to 'the young and gone, the old....'. Not expecting an answer, but is the break only there to delineate oct/ses? I don't see that it adds anything to the poem (but if an answer appears among other replies, I'd be happy to learn).
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