April 16: "Mab, la Reine des Mensonges"
“Mab, la reine des mensonges”(The Queen Mab aria from Gounod's Romeo et Juliette)I awoke late last night in this strange,dry spring--the blue windows alreadypointing towards translucence and dawn--to...
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"in this strange, dry spring" is such good scenery. it's quite haunting too, the way you can take that first line and it clasps onto the last, like a sort of engine hooking up a caboose. Ken always...
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Wow! This is terrific! Not much work to do on this one. I enjoyed the deft weave of allusion here and the cats! Easy to read this straight through as a narrative, but there is at lot at play here...
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yeah, what's with the dead mouse thing with cats? And then they act like you have not fed them in weeks. We have a VERY old cat who meyowls when he is alone. We discovered too that he is now...
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Love the idea of the cat dreaming, having a bad dream. Very tight and well told. That does seem to be your forte, the well told tale, whatever the subject.
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Oh, wonderful. I love all the miscellaneous details of daily life so deftly woven. Just like yesterday's, it reads as though you've been working on it for weeks, weaving in allusions and echoes. Oh,...
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A very polished poem, Chrispy, from title to final line. I have a memoir (not mine) told entirely in poetry and I think you could easily do the same. If you are interested I will look for it and give...
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I'd love that JD, thanks! Now, off to work on today's poem, and a little commentary first...
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Very nice, I love the narrative style and of course the cats, what a wealth of material they provide, don't get me started. Especially like the howlings of S1 and how they come back in the final.
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I was going to mention that. ( what Cyn said - but about Molly? ) I lived in a huge country place with a cat named Luke, and he used to scratch people, seemingly out of the blue, or just be strangely...
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Ditto to Alison. That "percussive" is splendid!
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