Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Danny Gentile #48


The colours 
on the map
keep changing

Someone saying:
your fault – you fault
in the same voice
heard before

I cannot move
the borders
because it is
an old map

I could erase them 
if that would make it
easy to maintain

the sky grows over
the undivided mountain
the fish and stream
close together and trees
doubtless of place
do not resist

Where was that location 
anyway?

The choice 
was never yours
despite all the spaces 
we vacate

we have opened a vein
and we must tend it
though it never was ours
in the beginning.

3 comments:

  1. Danny, I think this poem is really very fine. But do you reckon it might be even better if you erased these two stanzas?

    [I could erase them
    if that would make it
    easy to maintain]

    [Where was that location
    anyway?]

    Only a thought. I'll get back in my box now. Promise.

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    1. Thanks Rob I will definitely give it a try. As I wrote this last night very late when u able to sleep I hadn't really edited it much. It's good to,have constructive feedback. I appreciate it.

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  2. I think the border theme is moving in interesting directions... this might be one of the parts of a 366 anthology?

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