So Sam Said

Great!

Carson, I just love this heartbreaking tale. What a wonderful first poetry post! Can't wait to hear more from you in the way of poetry.

Powerful and evocative

The broken, wandering diction evokes grief beautifully and with faithful intensity. It is so easy to write bad poetry about powerful emotions, and so difficulty to express them well. This really captures the essence of feeling in language vital, strong, and yet unobtrusive. It achieves that enviable quality: the words step aside, and the emotion speaks.

Stunning

simply put.
v~

Poignant

and raw. Moving. Beautifully done.

Stark and hard..

Reads like it could have been written by James Ellroy. Very good poem. Please write some more. Gave it a 5.

I am moved to tears...

sweet, stunning, incredible - I read it twice and blinked away tears each time.

~Honey

Wow

Very powerful. I'm impressed.

There's there there

I wish I knew something about poetry so I could say why I liked it so much. It felt real, like I knew them.

Beautiful

--but: publishing a good poem HERE? How Kilgore Trout of you.

sad poetry

killing the person you love is agony

.