Comments on: Lull

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:55:16 +0000

Tyler, I love how you carefully collapse the narrative distance in this poem. I feel as if I’m looking through a camera, slowly zooming in on the crow until I’m staring him in the eye. Powerful moment of meeting and realization for the reader. Nicely done.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:29:33 +0000

Thanks, Karen. I'm glad you enjoyed it, even though the crow is dead. Which is one reason why I wrote this, actually. I usually don't stop to look too closely at dead animals on the road, but I'd just finished spending some time with Molly Peacock's "The Lull" for a poetry seminar I was taking when I happened upon this sight on a morning run---and, with her speaker in mind, I just had to stop and look. I started the poem when I got home, patterning my language after Peacock's, but it didn't do much for me that day. Some months, maybe a year, later I pulled it out again and the crow was reborn. Maybe this will help it live on, like your last sentence suggests.

By: karen

karen — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:07:20 +0000

Hi Tyler,

This is the first poem of your’s that I have read.
You have that nice, straight forward style of writing
that I prefer. Your images are clear and vivid–
it’s a nice poem. I always hate seeing injured
or dead animals, they leave a sad impact on me
for days.. At least this crow had a poem
written for him.

Karen