05-03-2018, 10:45 PM
@knot - Big thanks for your very thorough critique. It's amazing how different images the poem calls up for you are from what I was seeing as it was written!
Revision will require some thought (and other critics are invited, need some triangulation here). One thing that sticks out (for me) is that (too?) much apparently hangs on the word "firebug," a real thing rather than a neologism or metaphor insofar as it's US police slang for an arsonist.
Revision will require some thought (and other critics are invited, need some triangulation here). One thing that sticks out (for me) is that (too?) much apparently hangs on the word "firebug," a real thing rather than a neologism or metaphor insofar as it's US police slang for an arsonist.
Non-practicing atheist