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Monday, December 07, 2009

These fell cuts

These fell cuts
rather than weakening
scar over in thickened flaps
to shield against
each following blade

2 comments:

Jon said...

nice... i love this word "fell" as you've used it here... it's a great expression...

i also like the way that this poem links with the one above it "Amid Tangled Roots"... maybe a sequence you've got going here? or just a theme this last week or so?

Francis Scudellari said...

Thanks Jon. I have certain themes that repeat themselves, and I wrote these two in close proximity, but I hadn't really thought of them as a pair. I've got a couple poems I'm struggling to get in motion, so the shorter forms keep in a bit of a rhythm. I'll be by to comment on Terza Rima soon (I'm a big fan of Dante). I've been falling behind on a few fronts the past couple days.