04-11-2011, 06:00 PM
Thanks for your kind words Billy. I wanted to write a poem about a passionate love affair without the intrusion of my own desires, so I could inhabit the narrator's POV on an objective footing, and I figured the only way I could do that was by making the narrator a lesbian. It was also partly inspired by Sarah Waters' great novels dealing with lesbianism in Victorian England.
"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