Sunday, June 18, 2006

Lines Written On A Paper Bag While Waiting For My Wife Comments

Rating: 5.0

Things were not so old, once.
'Ivy' meant the ivy
on my parents' front porch—
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Max Reif
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Michael Gessner 19 June 2006

A complete poem in every sense-compression, reconnection & expansion, lyrically narrative & narratively lyrical, and best, it is new.

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Joseph Daly 19 June 2006

This is a great poem Max. I love the way that ivy is connected to home. It is at once something binding and yet sinister as well.

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Goldy Locks 19 June 2006

the vines are her own. this is how i interpret 'ivy' at the present. i thought this was special, Max. Sus

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Sue Ann Simar 19 June 2006

I like the title. It's what drew me to the poem. I'm not sure about once (and how it is punctuated) as a pivot word in the first stanza. I would either punctuate it surrounded by commas or change to 'Once things were not so old./Then 'ivy' meant the ivy...' - I defintely wouldn't capitalize Home. - a good read though, thanks for sharing.

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