tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5188747188459311906.post8092080751581820334..comments2023-04-14T03:01:50.441-07:00Comments on Pavement Poetry: GrowthFeatherless Bipedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02207055312949249371noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5188747188459311906.post-43929648499500123522012-06-07T23:36:11.399-07:002012-06-07T23:36:11.399-07:00Thanks very much for taking time on this one, Sore...Thanks very much for taking time on this one, Sorella. I've really not been feeling it lately (hence the break), but I appreciate your meeting me with effort and attention nonetheless.<br /><br />The medusa sea star is an animal I saw in a museum once, and (I just discovered) not easy to Google under that alias; it's a type of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basket_star" rel="nofollow">basket star</a>. The swallowtail is a butterfly, and I was thinking of how butterflies actually digest themselves in the cocoon. (In some sense, butterflies come out of their own stomachs.) You're dead right about the last line. Thanks again--I'll come back when I'm able to rock 'em again.Featherless Bipedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02207055312949249371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5188747188459311906.post-4754388781710143892012-06-07T15:56:15.673-07:002012-06-07T15:56:15.673-07:00Rachel - I have read this several times. I am assu...Rachel - I have read this several times. I am assuming a Sevenling, so this doesn't have to make literal, but rather intuitive sense. I am not sold of the last line, it is too pat. I don't know what a Medusa Sea Star is, I am guessing a sea creature, like a starfish. I like this image. for some reason, it brings to mind a watery grave, even though I simultaneously visualize sea kelp or other seaweed. I like that I see both. I also don't know what you are referencing in the second strophe with Swallowtail, allow that doesn't particularly bother me, either. I am going with a reference to butterfly and having butterflies in one's stomach. This, to me, is a fresh take on anxiety - the stomach is telling the self (the mind) what the mind is willfully ignoring. I do think you can build yourself a less pat ending, given the ambiguity of the rest. Which, as I've said, I like.Lauriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18359287835608411223noreply@blogger.com