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5/6/2019 1:24:42 PM Jeaunice Burnette Posts: 8	drowning in a sea of faces i am disconnected from all i encounter gone is the illusion of interdependence. i am a lone creature roaming a vast abyss. there's nothing to console me here. the black hole of loneliness devours my psyche... i've been told by dear Donne "no man is an island!" yet i am psychologically stranded on an archipelago. reading the horizon like a new york times bestseller in hopes of finding a rescue vessel.
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9/7/2019 8:08:32 PM Jack Webster Posts: 255	I apologize in advance, but I just had a margueritta;!it’s me and tequila responding. Your line about reading the horizon is GENIUS. That’s authentic originality right there. The previous lines need incubating to fully hatch in a more developed form. Try reading Gerard Manley Hopkins’ ‘Terrible Sonnets’ (as in dark sonnets); read Sylvia Plath and Emily Dickinson; your family of poets awaits to receive you, my dear, and they will instruct you personally, proportionally to your careful observation of their vehicles of expression and repositories of values and tastes in regards to prosodic locution. You are in good company, my dear; poets never die; they are as immortal as the feelings that outlive is. They will shine the way in the means of articulation. Welcome home You’ve got a good beginning; go deeper. edited by superlativedeleted on 9/7/2019
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