Kevin Young
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
She's helping us to understand.
How do you take that, the lambs versus us?
And, of course, there's all these symbols of lambs, but let's stick with that.
When I love ruminants, do not frighten.
And then we have this stanza break.
At anything.
Gorge in the soil, butcher break noise, the mere graze of predators.
And again, there's all these slippages.
You know, you marked the ones she makes for us, belonging and botched and blotched.
But then there's some that are kind of implied.
When I read the graze of predators, it starts to feel like gays.
It starts to feel like all these other things, even gorging.
There's something gorgeous about those kind of slippages, which are also, as you point out, between the I and the lambs, between the self and the other.
And I think that's really important.
And some of it is with the breaks, the form of the poem, as you point out.
But some of it is just this lovely sound and also that strangeness in the last four lines.