Response to Kelsey's Improv 3, Week 5:
Curiously the whole poem seems to teeter on the word "snap" to me. It's an interesting verb, incredibly charged with brief, monosyllabic potential. It brings a strange multiplicity that I wouldn't say doesn't show up in the beginning, but appears so strongly by this point that it almost affects my reread, double-so with the word "snap" functioning as an enjambment so that I'm seeing images of breakdown both physically and mentally--coupled with the word "cracking" in line three that sort of hints at this gradual and then abrupt undoing, like the finding of eggs in a hunt. I think what that line creates is a really successful opening for an off-ramp--a release from your Easter Egg Hunt trigger into the slowly shattering unravel of the mind and its faltering mental functions.
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