This is a small poetry club that started as a poetry email exchange between two friends. Our goal is to read a poem everyday, and this blog is one way to help keep us accountable. There is only one valid rule in poetry club: there are no rules in poetry club. Read any poem, in any order, with any or no interactions. You decide. We only suggest you read poetry!
12 Aug 2019: "Moon Slices" by Allie Jo Dreadfulwater
I've never read DFW. I listened to one of his commencement speeches. I know people love him.
I don't know the refernece for sure. Is "The Escape" suicide? I like the word choice of chiseling. It's a work in progress or something that can be modified or changed.
AJ,
You're such a more positive person than me. Every time I write it's so pessimistic or nihilist.
I couldn’t get over this idea that even a thought becomes a certain Escape. And often...even after the day passes we continue to hang onto them “chiseling” and refining and mulling and adapting into the pieces of the morning when the moon shouldn’t be there anymore...until we should Let this Go and become the Sun, or give them space to become an even fuller or less full moon the next night. Escape is such a dynamic concept with DFW...I am halfway through Infinite Jest and continue to look for the “answer” to the proposition of how to handle them. Everything can be an escape....but an escape from what?
I've never read DFW. I listened to one of his commencement speeches. I know people love him.
ReplyDeleteI don't know the refernece for sure. Is "The Escape" suicide? I like the word choice of chiseling. It's a work in progress or something that can be modified or changed.
AJ,
You're such a more positive person than me. Every time I write it's so pessimistic or nihilist.
I couldn’t get over this idea that even a thought becomes a certain Escape. And often...even after the day passes we continue to hang onto them “chiseling” and refining and mulling and adapting into the pieces of the morning when the moon shouldn’t be there anymore...until we should Let this Go and become the Sun, or give them space to become an even fuller or less full moon the next night. Escape is such a dynamic concept with DFW...I am halfway through Infinite Jest and continue to look for the “answer” to the proposition of how to handle them. Everything can be an escape....but an escape from what?
ReplyDeleteMaybe if you thought about the pessimism and nihilism as another Escape your poem may be able to look upon itself....?
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