Posts Tagged ‘Kathleen A. Wakefield’
Poetry Friday: “To Begin With”
April 6, 2018
Wakefield’s poem presents the metaphor of a peach as the speaker’s body: “I’ll let the sun singe the peach, / my flesh, luxurious, ruined.” The image of the body as a soft fruit blurs the boundaries between human and nature, planting identity within context. In this way, “To Begin With” reminds me of Mark Strand’s…
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