Paracosmic

life is tough, my darling, but so are you

Girls and Women

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A hint of melancholy,
love amiss yet subsists,
intimacy, stale and distant—lines stitched with
culpability, carried by her characters, with
every girl and woman missing a piece.

Mother, wife, lover, enabler—
under the rug, she swept jagged truths,
noting how flawed we are, she included,
reality penned through endings neither happy nor sad, and
on each of her words and faults, she’d stay alive.

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A belated acrostic elegy for Alice Munro, her literary contribution and an ironic – or perhaps hinted – legacy surfaced posthumously.

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    dalton perry

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    dalton perry

    This poem is outstanding. Try sending it to the literary rags (print) before settling for the easy blog spots. The rhythm begins with two end line “with” rhymes, and stays driven by internal near rhymes and pacing. It reads aloud very easily. Your wording is so elusive, near provocative, and tight that each one literally depends on the others to evoke deeper than subtleness might alone. This poem is way, way above the five grade stuff.

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