Thursday Read Write Poem

Posted on 20:10, September 3rd, 2009 by
EKSwitaj
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The Fire Spinner
she spreads out her arms for balance
but no one can balance
weight of the star
the rerum star sanctorum
forever and ever its number of points
debates the nature of sacred s
inscribed in a circle
of air, wood, fire
that can’t be kept apart
if you keep your eyes open
long enough to expose
tracers of motion
back through your skull
and into your flesh
long after gaudeamus, gaudeamus
when she goes home
with your crumpled dollar bill
and someone else’s quarter
to feed her bed-ridden mother
& someone’s limping child
written in response to read write prompt #90
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I like how you begin this with an appeal to sacredness, iconograpy and use of Latin (nice touch), and then move ironically to the sordid and mundane at the end.
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Thank you!
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I like the way your street performer is fully human rather than a type.
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Thanks: that’s always a challenge when working with tropes of sacredness, even when they eventually become mundane/profane.
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I love the blending of lyric and narrative modes here.
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Thank you. Working to combine those two modes is one of my primary interests as a poet, though it usually manifests as short lyrics making up a collection rather than one poem doing both.
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