Spirit: I Wait Poem by Leah Ayliffe

It is wise to keep your potentialities veiled; to manifest yourself at the proper time to valuing company. 'I have done one braver thing, Than all the worthies did; And yet a braver thence doth spring, Which is, to keep that hid' (John Donne) .

my seams broken / slowly bleeding the stardust from my veins This is a key passage because in another poem you use STARDUST as a symbol of your accumulated poems. By using the image of the blood stream you've put poetry at the center of your being. But the man who smiles is a trickster. Who is he indeed? Could he be like Stanley who destroys Blanche's dreams in STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE? Actually, he destroys her ability to sustain her dreams which is more insidious. And this male figure takes away your desire, your poetry, your inspiration. He may be a composite figure of all those forces which threaten creativity in an individual. This poem has no closure. Like the bleeding stardust, it's about creativity draining away. Quick, write another poem to counter it! !