tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531553.post1195463679535987191..comments2023-06-27T01:34:35.359-07:00Comments on Ted Burke LIKE IT OR NOT: "Aftermath": an artful evocation of a difficult state of being.TED BURKEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16610296721891201100noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531553.post-80453913112343258792007-12-28T10:11:00.000-08:002007-12-28T10:11:00.000-08:00The more I read this poem, the better I like it. I...The more I read this poem, the better I like it. <BR/><BR/>I like the telling of it...that simple moment that was gone before it was realized. <BR/><BR/>I had a moment once...with a crow. But our moment wasn't profound, or even quiet. I think she just wanted to know wtf I was. <A HREF="http://theoddneighbor.blogspot.com/2005/09/curiosity.html" REL="nofollow">I wrote about it</A> as soon as I could get inside to my keyboard. If I'd written a poem, it would have been filled with squeaks and OMGs.<BR/><BR/>There's this part of me that wants to preach Dennyesque that our lives are filled with millions of these moments. That we interconnect and communicate constantly with people, dogs, cigarette butts, and chipped enamel. And that every once in awhile, one of those moments gets our attention - and so we think it remarkable - different from all the other moments...Catnappinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15112190511038404999noreply@blogger.com