[Yves S L]

Hello Julie,

So for me, I found it more interesting to write a poem that was less a man howling at the moon all the time, but had retreats, and circumlocutions, and deflections, distancing and coming close, as well as moment of straight -out blurting your feelings and hurt, my interpretation of "saying it slant", a continuation of my last narrator, who was interpreted as being inauthentic and not coming out with it. Poetry as only one heart sincerely confessing to another is uhm ... yeah! I have never truly been into confessional poetry, though I accept its role in broadening the amount of things one can talk about, and, generally, expanding the box of poetic tools.

Obviously, you are speculating about autobiographical content, and that is cool, but also I have spent my whole life listening and observing people: different kinds of shame are everywhere in our porn-addicted culture, and people are out here getting publicly shamed all the time in a world of social media.

Addendum: All poems are persona poems. Like what are you doing talking in iambic pentameter anyways?