Thursday, January 19, 2012

What... is the deal... with the sudden disinterest in new stanzas?

The Feelings - Sharon Olds

The feelings in question deal with grieving for a deceased father without faith in an afterlife and also physical feelings, like the hair like a wolf's (which I found to be a strange comparison because I don't know how a wolf's hair feels in comparison to a dead human's) and the dry lips (and maybe it is not weird that she did that, but it took me by surprise) and the weight of the husband on her apparently fruit-like body, which was leaking tear-juice all over the place.

Also, I don't know what was going on with the Eskimo and the death canoe, and the daydream about the ashes was sort of disturbing.

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