I'm with Stephen regarding the diction and pacing of the first part. A lot of it "just goes on forever and wants to do too much." It feels over-elaborate and arch.
L6, as others have noted, is very metrically bumpy.
The "snags...the standing dead" kind of works for me. I like the turn to implicate the speaker (and everyone), with an inversion of the image of the trees, and the way it offers a strange word (which almost doesn't seem like one, until you think about it), then a quick definition of the word, which also expands it a little.
In the last line, I'd make it: "some desperate April morn." (Morn seems okay to me, especially if the earlier lines are tightened and made a little more pungent and punchy.)
I love the first line.
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