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Hi, The nice thing about this is that the very steady flow of the poem mirrors the way the cave itself is almost totally still. The downside of that, of course, is that it leaves the poem a little flat. There's no evolution from beginning to end, you might say necessarily, as the subject matter is n...

Hi David, New arrival on the forum... I enjoyed this. I like poems which give a striking observation of some moment, whether commonplace or bizarre. This is poised nicely between the two, commonplace to be staggering home, bizarre to be in full Elvis gear... I like the image of the headlights droppi...