The Bridge Comments

I like this. It has a hapless fatalism about it that puts the reader into a brief spell. Confusion: is the speaker someone who was standing on the bridge when it collapsed? I'm not always good at parsing obvious things like that.

Very good use the almighty metaphor....good stuff.

Nicely written....you gave me chills.

The metaphor of the bridge gathers the authority of the poem. In itself this is rare, and because of it, the poem is genuine, original, and compelling.

Is this your epitaph, Herbert? Good poem, but they'll have trouble carving all of it into the stone. Raynette