This is beautifully unsettling. What struck me most is how the poem keeps shifting between longing and self-recognition, as though the speaker understands the pattern even while being pulled deeper into it. The maritime imagery gives the emotional confusion real shape, and that final line leaves everything suspended in exactly the right way.
This is beautifully unsettling. What struck me most is how the poem keeps shifting between longing and self-recognition, as though the speaker understands the pattern even while being pulled deeper into it. The maritime imagery gives the emotional confusion real shape, and that final line leaves everything suspended in exactly the right way.
Thank you, Howard! I dabbled and tinkered with this poem for months, so seeing you notice all this is very fulfilling for me.
Oh yes!
Thank you, Charlotte 💗
Mustard was floored by this.
Thank you, Mustard!!💛
That's stunning, Abby.
Thank you endlessly, Emm 💜