by Equinoxe
I blurbed your poem on the New Poems Review thread on the Poetry Feedback & Discussion thread. Come yell at me about it. ;-)
First, it's always best to first post feedbacks and daily reviews in the public feedback space (super copy to the threads -why not?) for maximum exposure to the poem/poet.
Just because I seem to be the only one who thinks so does not make me wrong...:-)<P>
Second, in this poem I could find enough internal frame of references to hang my imaginations on. The long night and one's state of mind are mirrored: you can imagine it as an extension of a physical situation or as a metaphor or both. The imagery options are many with or without the mention of the mirror... At times I have a problem getting to the same state of minimum of sufficient frame of reference with some of your short poems.
Who is “she” in these past years; what happened to the old town in: “The old town across the lake”, yes I can imagine, but for my level of creative imagination I need something – a clue, a hint to get it going…