Hi John,
I'll be the one to state the obvious, as nobody else has yet, I don't think. The meeting is an AA meeting, I assume, and the title refers to the "12 step program". It's a great title. The poem is a wonderful sinking reverie, a giant cosmic sigh. The one sentence technique that you've utilised many times works utterly effortlessly here and the "form", the uninterrupted flow of text, is exactly what it needs. I really love this one.
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I'll no doubt be called down and probably appropriately so for saying this but for years I've heard people say non-met poetry is prose and other stupid things.
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Well, if that silly argument is still rumbling on in the face of a poem like this it's best to smile and ignore it.
Edit: to be fair to Nick, he probably wasn’t saying anything quite as blunt as that. But I don’t think his idea of chopping the poem up would add anything in this case. It would break that meditative sinking through the layers.