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TzaraTzaraalmost 18 years ago
There is much to like about this poem...

...but it is marred by some apparent sloppiness in punctuation (inconsistent capitalization; mixture of hyphen, double dash, and em dash for dash; missing quotation marks). Perhaps these are intentional. If so, I don't understand the reasoning behind their use and find it distracting.

I'm also puzzled why these lines are in the first section "I stare at her. My son plays near me. / He pulls a red boat as a truck on a string, / over a tar and sand stoned beach." since I don't remember any other references in the poem to a first person narrator or his son.

Very vivid in parts though. Overall, I quite enjoyed it.

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