hosts : Sanjuktaa Asopa & Kashiana Singh
silent after
the shooting
stars
---- Joshua Eric Williams
( Rattle Magazine, July 10, 2022)
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hosts : Sanjuktaa Asopa & Kashiana Singh
silent after
the shooting
stars
---- Joshua Eric Williams
( Rattle Magazine, July 10, 2022)
Poet's Comments as below - It is very interesting and inspiring to see how such a tragedy invoked such a poem and how the utter shock of these incidents is also represented in the succint approach of expressing through a form like a haiku
From Joshua -
"This poem was in response to the Uvalde, Texas school shooting but also to so many others. My intention was to create multiple poems within one, to be understood in slightly different ways according to how one stresses the words when reading the piece. Among the themes of the poem, I wanted to express sublime beauty amid tragedy but also how brief and small we are in comparison to the interconnected web of…
Amazing! this ku cuts deep, with a feather!
This is too good! Sort of grows on me…
I feel it can be a one-liner too.
'silent after the shooting stars'
and a suspense as to 'what, where, who,' and maybe the line can be a continuous reading too.
'silent after the shooting stars silent after'
It can go on and on...and that is why we call them as shooting stars!
and one more point to be thought of is that the poet has very cleverly used, ' silent after' and not 'the silence after'
Yes, the meaning changes and the evolving of that process stops.
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I maybe wrong. But, thank you.
Yes, it's growing on me too. In fact I went and read up all the poems of Joshua Williams in Mann Library archives. Great selection, Kashiana!