tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12555532.post113242811120007738..comments2023-03-25T22:45:17.274-04:00Comments on The Red Hibiscus: SilenceUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12555532.post-1132667296539102242005-11-22T08:48:00.000-05:002005-11-22T08:48:00.000-05:00Lyle,I did the substitution myself. It changes my ...Lyle,<BR/>I did the substitution myself. It changes my intention, so I'll probably keep "There is." It's intentionally an objectification of the past, taken as singular moments or views with differences and then, I hope, drawn together as instances which have no contrast. The final couplet (the whole poem) recalls the moments leading to my discovery of my mother, who died in her home on Mother's Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07387011571975673624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12555532.post-1132639510558059132005-11-22T01:05:00.000-05:002005-11-22T01:05:00.000-05:00Ann, liked this a lot.One of those quirky "acciden...Ann, liked this a lot.<BR/><BR/>One of those quirky "accidents" happened when I read the poem the first time -- I read the first line as "This is the silence of sleep" (instead of "There is..."). I caught the mistake, then after I read the poem through, I went back and re-read it, substituting "This" for "There" in each of the first four stanzas. I was fascinated at the difference it made, the Lyle Daggetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10731915540520704368noreply@blogger.com