Emotion is the best mnemonic device.
Silence is so steadfast, you know. It is so ample, after all.
Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry.
Even when Iām in the dark Iām in the dark with you.
I've learned that my readings of others' work often has little connection to their intentions. This doesn't mean that my response is wrong, and it doesn't make the author's views less right. Poets, like their poems, are "hopeful monsters".
Anguish is the universal language.