As I worked on this poem this morning, I thought at one point that it wanted to be a sonnet, but thirteen lines feels right. This poem is for Karl Patten:
:: bloop ::
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2 comments:
Uh, Ron...this is really fine, but,w ell, I count fifteen lines, with the turn at the end of line seven. I enjoyed reading it.
--Palmer
It's the headache: I can't count simple numbers. I looked at the poem and realized it's coming out one more than a sonnet, but my brain translated that as 13, not 15.
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