Transient Ischemic Attack Comments

This poem is so tight wound up I felt like it would suddenly unravel even as I read it. The vocabulary in the first two stanzas especially accomplishes this harnessing of kinetic energy. The second half of the poem seems to fan out and safely release some of that tension, but it doesn't dissipate - that would be accidental. In this poem you the poet are fully empowered (as Pablo Neruda put it) . Having shared with us a harrowing experience, you ease us back to our normal reality, but leave us wiser for this experience of pain.