hosts : Sanjuktaa Asopa & Aparna Pathak
moon ghosting the machine of the sea’s teeth
- Rich Schilling
(Bones, issue#25, April 2023)
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hosts : Sanjuktaa Asopa & Aparna Pathak
moon ghosting the machine of the sea’s teeth
- Rich Schilling
(Bones, issue#25, April 2023)
Thank you all for your comments. Here's what the poet says about the poem:
When I write more abstract poems, I tend to start with sound and rhythm. I never really analyze my own poems except if someone asks me like you have. I do not always have an answer, but for this one I think the genesis of this poem started with "sea's teeth". I added "machine" at some point and then the poem probably sat waiting for a few weeks or so until I added "moon ghosting". So what does it mean to me? I live in Missouri in the United States so there is no ocean anywhere near me. The few times I've visited the ocean, it…
I like it without getting a grip.
Would the team like to explain this ku to me, please?
_()_
winter tide
wild horses gallop
along the shoreline