01-25-2026, 11:34 AM
(01-25-2026, 10:17 AM)busker Wrote:I don't know why I didn't like it on first reading. Maybe because I was seeing it on my mobile, a smaller screen, taking a quick look in between things.(01-25-2026, 09:42 AM)milo Wrote: I don't know if it makes any sense to spotlight a poem after the poet stopped participating but this has always been one of my favorite poems on the site:That's interesting. I didn't like it at all, with lines like
https://www.pigpenpoetry.com/thread-1171...s+iscariot
The kind sea rushed to embrace you,
and
And now you lie
full fathom five
with pearls for eyes.
which is a secondhand allusion at best.
I stopped liking it after shattered cheeks
and I didn't quite know who'd died in the end. Clearly, the matted hair indicates that it's a human, not a dog. Why Judas Iscariot? I found it unnecessarily mysterious, reachingĀ at profundity.
But - sometimes you just like what you like
Re-reading it at my desk patiently, in the afternoon, it's different. I see milo's point.

