So the purpose of this blog is to be a space to practice creativity. I am currently using it as a place to record a single, unedited poem for each day in 2019. While I attempt to write everyday, I may not actually post daily. Instead, I will post poems as they are completed, but one for everyday of the year. Not sure I can make it, but we'll see. It's fun to try regardless :)

Friday, August 20, 2021

Poem: August 19, 2021

 Analysis

Annie asks me to help interpret

her best friend’s, Ryan’s, dream,

which is just a trick I picked up

a decade or so ago- basic symbols- 

any literature major could do it.


It’s fun in the same way that 

analyzing a poem is fun.

You look at the whole, then

you take it apart- each noun

is just a symbol, each action

a parallel action, each adjective

A significant clue to the cypher.


I look for patterns- vines and 

windowless rooms- someone

feels trapped. It’s the same

in the waking world. Who doesn’t?


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