[Hilary Biehl]

Hi Alessio,

Perhaps I am missing what you are doing here, but this poem is totally uninteresting to me, and perhaps problematic beyond my personal tastes.

Does the worn out cliche of the woman who's trapped or seduced a man really need to be resuscitated? If you're going to use it at least make it somehow new in form or content. Instead you've given us archaic language, a self-pitying narrator, and a conceit that doesn't really develop at all over the course of the poem.

I'd rather just reread "The Flea" (which I always enjoy, in spite of the "please sleep with me" content, because it's so unapologetically weird).