Friday, 12 October 2018

Poetry Friday: “Lord, Sky”

The compelling narrative of “Lord, Sky,” set during the time of an election, is also sheer poetry. The writer repeats diction (“light,” “sky,” “moon,” “grin”) and layers language (“heaven,” “rainbow,” “stars,” “night,” “midnight”) to invite us “little trees of heaven / stuck in concrete” to pay heed to the world above and around us, to […]

from
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/goodletters/2018/10/poetry-friday-lord-sky/

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