A review by elfs29
Midwinter Day by Bernadette Mayer

reflective slow-paced

4.0

I think this is a really interesting and well executed concept that was very influential for female poetry especially. The wideness of the emotional landscape exists within and is changed by every physical movement, changes all the time, follows no structure, and cannot be predicted so therefore must be recorded.

I know you speak,
And are as suddenly forgiven,
It's the consequence of love having no cause
Then we wonder what we can say.
                                          I can say,
I turn formally to love to spend the day,
To you to form the night as what I know,
An image of love allows what I can't say,
Sun's lost in the window and love is below
Love is the same and does not keep that name
I keep the name and I am not the same
A shadow of ice exchanges the colour of light,
Love's figure to begin the absent night.