Erotessa / Apart Poem by Magdalena Biela

Being apart is obviously very painful for the poet but he veils his memories in striking images rather then narrate the joys - and sorrows - of that past rapport. The effect is to bring me deeper into the poet's experience because those images wash over me. I may not know the details of this story but I feel the emotions roiling inside of me. Overall the poem reconciles me to experience: even if our deepest desires are not fulfilled, even if our fondest hopes are unrealized, we have still lived a fully human life, and the images in our poems fix the sheet wonder of it in our psyches.