What follows is a list poem where the list is implied instead of stated outright. I also experimented with persona, using my father as a stand-in for the first part of the poem and then shaking him off in the second part, when I begin to speak as myself.<\/p>\n
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Women I\u2019ve Loved<\/b><\/p>\n
how dad hated mother\u2019s shouts, gin blossomed, passed out on the couch<\/span><\/p>\n she loved alcohol almost as much as Murray<\/span><\/p>\n In the angel dust was Zoe, she\u2019s the sun that hurt the eyes<\/span><\/p>\n which he\u2019d try to avoid but somehow always see<\/span><\/p>\n Ellisia after and before, she\u2019s the closing hospital door<\/span><\/p>\n there were nails in his eyes when I stood to watch her go<\/span><\/p>\n \u2019til she came back again, just to be his lonely friend<\/span><\/p>\n (then wrecked her car and died in the winter snow)<\/span><\/p>\n or red-faced Maddie, mad from drink, when she tried to claw him blind,<\/span><\/p>\n still, he\u2019ll miss her, as virginal with her, she was nothing if not kind.<\/span><\/p>\n soon after Maddie another more like his mother, painted pictures that went with his words<\/span><\/p>\n one canvas still hangs in the halls where they learned, of a croc with an innocent bird.<\/span><\/p>\n she haunts him too, though not like you, mother of God who he will not name<\/span><\/p>\n thank heavens his own mom came back from the grave, erasing you with a healthy Jane.<\/span><\/p>\n No more am I that mirror of a man.<\/span><\/p>\n With Catherine, her, Emma, and more, my life has started new\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n and each night I dream a little bit less<\/span><\/p>\n of the mess I made of you.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What follows is a list poem where the list is implied instead of stated outright. I also experimented with persona,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3208522,640,1,1230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crwr-201-intro-to-poetry","category-poetry","category-uncategorized","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mackenzielott\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mackenzielott\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mackenzielott\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mackenzielott\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mackenzielott\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mackenzielott\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mackenzielott\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions\/487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mackenzielott\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mackenzielott\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mackenzielott\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mackenzielott\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}