http://qarrtsiluni.com/2009/11/05/the-charmed-life/ online literary magazine Sun, 27 May 2012 00:49:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://qarrtsiluni.com/2009/11/05/the-charmed-life/#comment-24920 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:41:37 +0000 http://qarrtsiluni.com/?p=6335#comment-24920 Thank you, Peg, for reading “The Charmed Life” and for taking the time to respond. The reader creates the poem in her reading, and you offer me a deeper way to understand my poem.

]]> http://qarrtsiluni.com/2009/11/05/the-charmed-life/#comment-24874 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:34:18 +0000 http://qarrtsiluni.com/?p=6335#comment-24874 Like the princess described, this feels to me like a poem in waiting. The phrase “aspic mold of pansies” perfectly evokes the sense of unnaturally preserved beauty diminished by the very fact of its preservation.

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