3 Sept 2019: "dying love" by Laurie Howard

dying love
afternoons spent
like shards of desire
under the fractured glass
of your laugh
have caught my love
bitter and unaware

Laurie Howard

2 comments:

  1. The Simplicity of and texture of emotion here leaves you wide open. The lower case letters and lack of punctuation also makes me feel an almost warped intensity- as if looking over a dark well...a fear and fascination that may or may not be there- hanging in the air.

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  2. The author made a lot of good word choices: "shards of desire," "fractured glass," laugh, love, and "bitter and unaware." Then the title puts a different spin on it. Like a circle, the narrator being brought back from the fractured glass. But the glass is still fractured, love is still vulnerable.

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