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Thanks!: Hey, thanks for taking the time to comment on my poem! I've been browsing your works looking for a springboard into your work and mind. You right well and have a cohen like quality to your work which is kind of opaque, but which ar the same time leaves you wanting to know more about the mind and the experience(s) behind the poetry.  I stumbled over "cannot, will not" and could really identify with the sentiments. I tried to reply directly in the poem but fot a message that I wasn't authorized. So, hope you get this reply.  I tried to reply directly in the poem but fot a message that I wasn't authorized. So, hope you get this reply. The reference to writing to someone long dead gave me an association to this text by the Indigo Girls who do the same thing to Virginia Wolf.  I think you might like it. The only problem is that they write so fucking well that one is left to feel a little impoverished in comparison. Be well and vest of luck with your work. 

I have not found, nor read,: I have not found, nor read, the text of Pope's essay.  Never could find it online.  I just liked the sound of the title as a name for a hater, lol.

From deceptively simple: From deceptively simple language, the poem creates a devestatingly poignant and philosophically compliex perspective.  Your poem reminds me of something J.V.Cunningham, one of America's greatest Poets, said:  that the best Poetry looks like it was easy to write, and is, in truth, too difficult for most people to write.  This poem, like your other poems, meets and exceeds the Cunningham test.

Thus us the best kind of: Thus us the best kind of poem---because it presents a seeming paradox and then demands an answer to its concluding question.  And the particular approach to this poem's unique perspective is both articulate and provocative.  This is a poem of powerful discernment and demonstrates that a real Poet is always more compelling than even the finest philosopher.  Wow!!!

Your extended metaphor is: Your extended metaphor is very impressive, as is the modulation of the poem's voice---quiet at the beginning and end, but mire emphatic in those lines that begin with "I was raised."  Once again, I gladly say, as I did about the Siren poem and the Fox poem:  I really, really enjoyed reading this one.

Thank you very much, I'd: Thank you very much, I'd forgotten about this one only found it when I looked at my old iPad. Autumn is a favourite of mine too. :-) Sue.