09-21-2016, 12:23 PM
The first stanza is oddly free verse, or even free-form, for what is otherwise a fairly structured piece. I enjoyed the poem as a whole a great deal, though, and it's one of my favourite poems on this site for a while, not just because it deals in a subject and way of writing that I've always enjoyed. It has the eloquence, deep emotion, and violence of a classic fairy tale, and the grand pronouncements and strong sense of time and place of Biblical prose, a powerful combination, and one which shows you to be a great storyteller. Thank you for the read. - Jack xxx
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." - Gene Wolfe