Posted by Jo Halliday on 08/10/09 at 04:37 PM Why I said Tarkovsky is that this poem switches on a whole beam of flashlight on a slice from life: it's very near presenting an image, yet the image is much more full, it's a slice. There is directness once again as in all your poems, Ava, yet in this one there's a certain veil: whether it came about intentionally or not is hard to judge. And it's this veil seeming to blow in the air and only revealing more the lithesome shape within, which makes the poem so interesting. It's like a night of fireworks and yet the place I see them from is a placid lakefront. |