My Bad Place Comments

I suppose we all have these bad places inside our psyches and we poets are especially vulnerable since we spend so much attention on psychic reality. Your poem dealt with the NIGHTMARE in the round, so to speak, your words and images illuminated all of it and the surrounding space. The result was I did not feel frightened reading the poem because it is a poem of liberation, not incarceration! There were even touches of humor which prove your mind is asserting its order on the inner chaos. This poem doesn't ignore genuine fear but neither does it submit. Mines are dangerous places but diamonds and gold are found there, That's true of your bad place too.