Maybe read it as the death of the American Dream?
----Deb,
This is an intriguing collection of images but I wonder if I would need a
stronger beginning to ease me into them. Could be that I don't know enough
but I can't get into the first stanza. There is a dark haired boy, yes,
falling to earth, yes, I've got that but "on earthy mounds between now and
then"?? It's a small town in foreign land, but foreign to what? So somewhere
on planet Earth, I assume. A boys falls to Earth. Is he ordinary or
beautiful? I suppose the ordinary is beautiful. Suddenly there are people
thrilled to watch him run. This makes me think that the falling to Earth is
one way of saying that he was born recently and is not mythical. Evidently
he is loved. I don't outline these thoughts to make fun of the poem, instead
to give you a blow by blow account of how one reader has struggled to
assemble the poem as he went along. Course it could be that I'm a dullard.
Anyway after this hard a beginning I start to slow down and don't find
myself sliding through the poem that well, even after several goes. Just my
reaction. So don't take it too seriously.
Colin
Deborah Elizabeth Russell, Artist/Poet
Post Poems | Inside | Cityslide
Shadow Poetry | Parallels Words For The Wind
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