[Rick Mullin]

Thanks Siham,

I really appreciate your giving this one time, and of course I'm happy with your generous response. I'm also glad you mention Huncke. Writing this might be the closest I've come to the kind of free-wheeling style of that poem. Both require re-reading. And both loose a great many readers in the middle of a first reading. Like others here, I am managing a situation where a person needs to be familiar with my poetry before reading any of my poems....

I'm interested in the segment you highlight. I like the first line, but I wonder how my use of the word sorrow as a verb will go over. Also, the word "nurdles" was a concern. They are the basic pellets of plastic kicked out by the huge ethylene crackers (plastics factories). Rivers near crackers are full of them. So are oceans. The line I like best in that stanza is the one with cracking mountains.

Thanks for you input and insight on "petard"!

I'm really glad you see this holding together with the support of the crown mechanism. And "a Götterdämmerung poem in a grand style"--I may frame this critique.

It was so great to hear from you on this. Thanks again.

Rick