hosts: Sanjuktaa Asopa & Vandana Parashar
embellishing again the skipped stone of his throat
---- Tanya McDonald
(Frogpond, Volume 45:1, Winter 2022)
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hosts: Sanjuktaa Asopa & Vandana Parashar
embellishing again the skipped stone of his throat
---- Tanya McDonald
(Frogpond, Volume 45:1, Winter 2022)
I have requested Tanya to visit the website and answer the queries but I guess she is busy with publishing the latest issue of Kingfisher.
Here is what she had shared along with her permission—
“As for the story behind it, it was loosely inspired by a Zoom call with a friend who tells fantastic stories. When I wrote it, I'd been reading NOON: An Anthology of Short Poems, edited by Philip Rowland, and that inspired me to play around with the language and images. It went through several revisions and several rejections before it found a home in Frogpond.”
Wow! Alan, I can’t say that you have nailed it, because I don’t know what Tanya had in mind while writing this, but this definitely resonated with how I interpreted this ku and so asked for Tanya’s permission.
The first thing that came to my mind when I came across this ku was the saying —“ If a woman asks you a question, it’s better to tell her the truth because chances are she’s asking you because she already knows the answer.” 😀
I imagined a woman taking delight in watching a man concocting a lie and fumble and swallow hard, when all along she knows the truth.
Just not about to understand this....
I can't of course guess what the author is saying, though let's break down the poem:
embellishing again the skipped stone of his throat
---- Tanya McDonald
embellishing
verb gerund or present participle: embellishing
make (something) more attractive by the addition of decorative details or features.
again
adverb
You use again to indicate that something happens a second time, or after it has already happened before.
the
definite article
skipped
usually a verb
See next note
stone
noun
skipped stone = adjective + noun
of
preposition
his
possessive pronoun
throat
noun
Now throat and stone could be purely figurative, or something to do with the "Adam's Apple":
The Adam's apple — also known as the laryngeal prominence — is the cartilage…
I had hoped somebody would help me out with this one.
I still am hopeful...