When I Die Comments

First, Daniel, amen. Then, the summoning of canaries is surprising and delightful for me. “As nimble as air, as free as a song in no known key” strikes me as inspired imagery—cool! I like. -Glen

I like the the turn in this poem. The speaker begins with a heaviness-death, loss and abandonment. I sense a bit of an unreliable narrator talking about losing the 'useless things, ' with that loss phrased as a question. But then the speaker lets go and compares dying to his canaries and the poem switches from death and loss to the lightness of flight and living with out care. It is as this point, that the death becomes another form of life.

The impact of the poem so well writ... it hits you like, like...a brick, well done Daniel Brick

Well written and thought provoking.