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I am glad to hear that you: I am glad to hear that you are recovering, however slowly that may go.  A similar after-illness faigue has taken a swing at me during the last couple of days, and I have slept more this week than is customary for me.  I also have a painful minor procedure schedule---the catheter exchange---for this coming Monday. The second and third paragraphs of your comment contain an understanding of my screen name that few have held, or at least have shared with me.  I am screenshotting your words and downloading them to my personal files about my screen name, and I am so very, very, very grateful to you.

Highly significant visuals,: Highly significant visuals, shrewd yet very casual, organic wordplay and sharp freeze-frames at just the right, highly-charged moment . . . So much to unpack in a tight emotional space!   It all conspires to make this an explosive work of art. Poetry that really, really works! Love your style! 

They only see corruption: They only see corruption because their failed leader, the Innkeeper, has taught them to point out fictive corruption in order to deflect attention for their own political failures.  They have given into yet another "trumptation."  I have to wonder if there is any connection, fanilial or other, between Speaker McCarthy and Senator "Jumpy" Joe McCarthy from decades ago.

As I read through your: As I read through your magnificent poems in this form, I am becoming convinced that the Moon is one of your presiding Muses, and I applaud your accomplishment in this series.

Oh, wow!  I have been reading: Oh, wow!  I have been reading Poetry for fifty years, as of this past April, and in that time, I have allowed only a few poems to have the kind of effect this Poem has had on me this morning. First, as a Poet, let me commend and applaud your very skilled use of both metaphor and simile to direct, focus, and enhance the emotional impact of this Poem on the reader.  To me, this is a textbook perfect example, and if I were teaching a class on Poetry, this would be required reading.  And the metaphors and similes are deployed naturally, almost casually, as if emerging from an authentic conversation (and they may have, I don't know the Poem's provenance).   As a son who had problems with my mother, I certainly can relate to the Poem's historical presentation.  My own mother---for reasons no one has ever been able to explain---did a lot to undercut or sabatoge my ambitions (rather they were academic, social, or romantic).  She and my father adopted me---I was not their birth-child---but she seemed almost obsessive about embarrassing me.  (An example---during the summer of 1979, when I spent the entire college break with my sweetheart and my sweetheart's parents in a small town on the other side of our state, my mother sent a letter ahead, explaining to the parents what an unpleasant and inconsiderate person I was, and that she fully expected they would find my presence difficult.) Just by coincidence, while browsing the internet today. I happened upon an article about the ancient Poet Vergil's first book of Poetry.  I have not had a chance to read it yet, but the title suggested that Vergil's Poems in that book dealt primarily with the subject of solitude, and of being alone.  I think your Poem stands in that tradition; and when any poem can stand with Vergil's, that is a mighty fine place to be.

lovely write: lovely write

Reading this, I now realize: Reading this, I now realize it is one of the best summaries of the poetic vocation that I have ever read.  In its comprehension of the large purpose of poetry, your words are textbook-perfectl