10-21-2017, 04:34 PM
(10-19-2017, 06:48 AM)Todd Wrote: Revision 4
Bare of leaves, the wild oaks maybe "the wild oaks stretch bare of leaves"/ like fellow insomniacs (to avoid the enjambment).
stretch like fellow insomniacs.
Dew sizzles in beads together with the sizzling i thought of those sweet fizzy chains where you could chew off one bead by one ..time, telomeres.. don´t know if you meant something like that, quite like the meta anyway.
on the long grass.
Under the dry light, flowers glint,
unblown pinwheels in the thick air. this line is in my op. almost too compressed and seems to me like a slightly different story.
another word for "unblown" might be more fitting since it seems to be more an impossibility to blow them in the thick air than a decision (forget all that if i understood it completely wrong)
I shift in the dirt
from foot to foot, not sure if "from foot to foot" adds anything here that wasn´t in "shifting". i could imagine the two last stanzas compressed to one 3-liner.
knowing the end
will be nothing like this.
the title pictures sleep as something desired,
while in your poem, especially the ending, sleep appears more like the proverbial little brother ..
maybe just name it "restless" ?
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