All Comments on 'Reluctant Reversal'

is mentioned in Tuesday's reviews.

once told me to cut my favorite line, and then go thruogh and cut all that I found clever. It's a bit of advice that has occasionally worked charms for me.

When you cut through the "nefarious nectar of reawakened impetuosity" you find something quite wonderful:

I never expected

The drama of these days

I would not have believed

The ground so dangerous

The edge so close

passions, out of control desires, and an undeniable temptation - recipe for destruction. This piece had me shivering from start to finish, and left me feeling a little bleak melancholy. It may have hit too close to home, these lines especially:

"I wanted to know

Whether I could reach you"

You did, you did. Thank you for a wonderful poem. LJ