I too wanted to take this chance to thank Tim for choosing my poem for discussion and Rhina for her excellent comments on it. Rhina was the one who, on one of my first posts on this web site, gave me the confidence to resist an overwhelming chorus of disapproval for the tone of my poem, by saying that it made sense to her in the context. I was already well aware of her own poetry, and her endorsement made me willing to trust my own judgment, something that I badly needed at the time.
It has been great to have this second chance to gather input on my poem, to be forced to put into words what was originally more intuitive than rational, and to learn from the others.
Susan
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