Now THERE'S a critique every writer wants to hear. I also need to stop and allow a piece of writing sink in before moving to another one. You know, Rebecca, Substack supplies us with an embarrassment of riches.
What a wonderful image you have created of this old aunt. You have made her absolutely three-dimensional in these few words. And we know how you feel about her without you explicitly saying. The mixed composition / layout of this piece is so interesting, Sue, almost is if they were simple jots lifted from a notebook and arranged helter-skelter. So creative.
Oh, Sue, this is so very beautifully constructed - what an amazing poem. Incredible work. I need to pause a while before I read anything else!
Now THERE'S a critique every writer wants to hear. I also need to stop and allow a piece of writing sink in before moving to another one. You know, Rebecca, Substack supplies us with an embarrassment of riches.
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Some people who are gone can never be forgotten.
Thanks, Sue.
What a wonderful image you have created of this old aunt. You have made her absolutely three-dimensional in these few words. And we know how you feel about her without you explicitly saying. The mixed composition / layout of this piece is so interesting, Sue, almost is if they were simple jots lifted from a notebook and arranged helter-skelter. So creative.
Thank you, Sharron. Yeah, poetry lends itself to placing words/paragraphs in different ways to separate time and conversation.
Sue, that is a real tour de force. How you pull those disparate threads together, weaving and braiding. What a portrait! What tragedy, what joy.
Thank you, Fran. I've learned a lot from my fellow Substackers.
What a portrait, what a story!
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