Driving out Jackass Flat Road
Deeply chilled in December
Spending an warmth-free afternoon
With the good grey poet
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'confirming the charmed life that's found you' - your writing has a musicality to it.
You really know how to capture a moment. I really enjoy this kind of poetry, as it does more than link the words together. It gives a series of flickering pictures, complete with sound and smell, and it brings us there, to the place where the beauty lived. I never thought I would be able to write that about a place called Jackass Flats, but there you have it. Maybe you didn't either, and that's why you wrote it.