A Tiger Adrift, a reading

A Tiger Adrift, a reading

A Poem by Pryde Foltz
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A Tiger Adrift



A Tiger Adrift is published in Strays and available at the link below or through your local bookstores and libraries.


Strays is a collection of two extended narratives and more than forty love-themed poems, exploring the meaning of romantic love while we have it and attempting to find the healing after its loss. Found within these pages is the short story Gutter Dog, the novelette Ginni, and the poems False Skin, the Boy Who Wore Clothes, and the Black-Wit Reveller.

© 2014 Pryde Foltz


Author's Note

Pryde Foltz

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I really liked this. I think your use of typeface and point changes was integrated seamlessly and intensified the tension. This made me think of "The Life of Pi" and the helplessness the tiger sometimes suffered. I like the cadence of this; it seems to roll like the waves, billow up and down like the swells of the ocean. It does not appear there will be a happy ending for the kitten/tiger. Is that your intention? Or is this a metaphor? Like a fish out of water? Like anyone thrown into a completely alien environment and madly trying to survive? So the happy ending is not a duty of the poem, but the duty of he who struggles. Am I close?

Posted 11 Years Ago


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Pryde Foltz

11 Years Ago

Thank you, Minichinz, as always your reviews are spot on. Really, I look forward to them.

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Pryde Foltz

11 Years Ago

Perhaps those icy shores will thaw.



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It reminded me at first of Venus warning Adonais about boars ... but sharks ... they need to keep moving in order to breathe ... kind of puts the pressure on everyone else to keep moving. Sad about the tiger though ... in Alice, at least there was the other shore to swim to. Nice.

Posted 11 Years Ago


Pryde Foltz

11 Years Ago

Oh yes, it is very sad about the tiger, but as the poem goes ... swim little kitten, swim.
Ah thank you Jacob! I thought I was being a little too literal with this and thought of the ' Life of Pye' which I have not read nor watched. Thought provoking pice Pryde.

Posted 11 Years Ago


Pryde Foltz

11 Years Ago

Thanks John. Thanks for the read.
John Alexander McFadyen

11 Years Ago

Pi even!..........
yes, "Life of Pi"

still waiting to see that...

but often we have to drift and survive until we can grow strong enough to roar..

that could have to do with growing up, with getting back health...many applications for the allegory...

really liked this piece.

Posted 11 Years Ago


jacob erin-cilberto

11 Years Ago

i figured more behind it...although you did say in the description, "an obvious nod to Yann Martel"<.. read more
Pryde Foltz

11 Years Ago

yeah your right.
Pryde Foltz

11 Years Ago

Oh and the movie is outstanding.
Lovely! This tiger will be back to f**k up some other animals yet! I like writing about animals

Posted 11 Years Ago


Pryde Foltz

11 Years Ago

Wink. It's not really about a tiger.
Luke L

11 Years Ago

it's my interpretation :p.
Pryde Foltz

11 Years Ago

I added a line about sharks.

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