Posted by Atticus on August 27, 2004, at 21:42:28
In reply to poem...Lazarus, posted by malthus on August 27, 2004, at 21:11:21
Your poems just keep getting better and better. You seem to have awakened something in yourself. This piece in particular hits home because during the eight years when I was really struggling with my illness, just doing simple day-to-day things seemed monumentally difficult, and I couldn't seem to string two words together. Nor could I summon the motivation to even try. That harp, with its strings gone silent and neglected, is a superb metaphor for how that felt. And of course, Muses carried little harp-like lyres or something, didn't they? Was that a deliberate allusion here? Were you/are you a musician? Are you the harp's "mistress"? :) Atticus
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