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What the poem was reaching for
The Cutting Room changes its question — and opens the slab to your poems.
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The cadence decided what the climb meant before I did
No 7 — Climbing the Schillerkopf: a borrowed music, a pre-decided summit.
Jul 6
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Two lines reached for tears. The cancer was one line below.
No 6 — Prayers: the abstraction that reached past the thing.
Jun 29
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One noun too many, and the rest of the poem stays in the drawer
No 5 — The knackerman: over-naming in two lines.
Jun 22
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The comfort arrived before the grief did
No 4 — Little lady of Flores: consolation the poem hadn't earned.
Jun 15
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The hand was on cold rock — then the speaker stepped out of the weather to explain
No 3 — Again: the speaker who contemplates instead of climbs.
Jun 8
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My two weakest lines, at the two places the form shows them most
No 2 — Dusk, dusk: the reach for the universal, twice, at the seams.
Jun 1
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I autopsy my own failed poems. Here is the first.
No 1 — Thylacine, and the one line that explained too much.
May 25
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