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Poetry Review - Though It's Late Thoughts, Though Its Not Able, Nothing Is Wrong
The epigraph from the poem pito el silencia, or i ask for silence, translated by evet segart ah, is: "Though it's late, though it's night and you are not ab sing as if nothing were wrong" The opening image of the collection is a ground hog destroying your tomatoes. And similarly, and more explicitly, in a good story, you have lines that kind of invite us to see them as a a facet of your personal ars Poetica. In the first poem, you take joy in the joy of another after eating your food, even at your own expense. In the second,you take joy from being fed by another when you're
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