A Question Of Love Comments

Thanks for taking the time Todd Garland. I've only just now seen your comment. The blinds are pulled on all other windows to the house, but one bedroom window is boarded

Very enigmatic...a mark of good art. The title, A Question of Love, seems to stand in contrast to the hurt expressed in the poem below. This ambiguity gives it a haunting effect. Overall, the poem - for me - thematically (not as incest but as forbidden sexuality, which is all sexuality since the garden) recalls Faulkner's 'The Sound and the Fury'. So does the use of colloquialism in its closing lines. Are you from the south? I gave this poem an eight...but it could easily be made into a ten. There is a bit of excess verbiage that can be cut, as well as one glaring obversity: how can we know that the 'blinds are fully pulled' if the window is 'boarded shut'? (but i could be missing something here.) In sum, you have taken pain, and transformed it into a work of art (see my poem 'Boys Dream') . A very beautiful thing indeed! Re-write it a few times an ye'll have a '10'er' lassie.