The wall surrounding them they never saw;
The angels, often. Angels were as common
As birds or butterflies, but looked more human.
As long as the wings were furled, they felt no awe.
Beasts, too, were friendly. They could find no flaw
In all of Eden: this was the first omen.
The second…
This is one of my favorite poems of all time.
The visiting artist at my art school brought it in with him and taught us about syntax, breaking it down line by line and I reembered it was the first time I really appreciated mature poetry. Because before I breezed through poetry I never stopped to appreciate all the things it was skillfully accomplishing in doing, I never noticed the movement, the tempo in which I read it, anything. I never noticed how the ty[pe of words used matched the idea.
” the fruit had no taste at all” not the apple because apple has a taste just the fruit, it has no place, its nothing, ti doesn’t matter, its not about the fruit.
I just showed it to my friend’s boyfriend, Will, who is a really sweet kid who thinks he knows so much ,but you know. that happens. anyways his mind is BLOWN. she just dragged him off so I could work and they could have midnight breakfast at our cafeteria which is a thing we have during exams, and he was like no! I want to talk to nina some more! and it was really cute.