09-14-2010, 06:23 PM
(09-14-2010, 06:00 PM)Touchstone Wrote:thanks for the feedback some good points, i'll take them into mind on an edit.(09-14-2010, 03:00 PM)billy Wrote: A countryside of sortsI really like that (and the title as well).
arrives in a flurry on the fifteenth floor
finches, mating pairs.
(09-14-2010, 03:00 PM)billy Wrote: Flitting from balcony to concrete balconyI think you've tried to fit too much in there. I'd lose either "weaving...drab" or "playing...wing." Probably the latter (see below for the reason why).
darting, diving, weaving
through paint peeled drab, playing
catch-up on the wing.
(09-14-2010, 03:00 PM)billy Wrote: when they alight outside the windowSorry but I don't like that much. What light? They're finches not phoenixes. And "alight" and "light" are too similar to sit well so closely together.
their light dissolves the tragedy of towers.
I think "tragedy" is too strong a metaphor. You've got some countryside creeping back, and concrete is dull, but tragedy would fit more naturally into something about a forest being bulldozed. Perhaps "mocks the hubris of towers" or something like that would be more in keeping.
