Espanol

Skinning up

butterflies

and smoking in

duende

que cabron

Reviews

[Eilis]

Not sure why you don't have more people visiting your page. I guess that is always a process and challenge in itself in places like this. Anyway.

I am a big fan of these kinds of poems. I think it takes talent to distill a moment like this and leave out all of the unnecessaries. This is the second poem of yours in this style that I've read, and I think they have both been really good at evoking a sense of time and place-- but more importantly voice. It's the individual voice in the poems that I really like.

I have four brothers and they are all far away from me now that we are adults, so I miss them.
Your poem reminds me of that bit of space taken up by the male body when that body does not care who is nearby, or what anyone might happen to think of him. There's something endearing in the act of just being the self you are.

That's where the poem took me, anyway. Skinning up butterflies is an excellent line. I don't know what it means, haha, and that makes me like it even more.

[Shazbatt969]

Thanks Ellis, great review, I have a load of these types of poems, most people don't actually class them as proper writing, but what do they know, kudos to you for taking the 3 seconds to read and enjoy, lol, thanks again, I can sort of explain the skinning up butterflies line, mainly it made sense at the time,

[John Alexander McFadyen]

You are either a complete nutter or a cultured intellegent guy. I'd like to think the former but fear the latter! Love your style. It's clipped, often challenging offerings. The idea of skinning butterflies is unique and of course a futile pursuit. Although I go mto Spain often these days the language evades me other than in simple terms. But elves and goats seem somewhat far fetched?

[Shazbatt969]

hey John, my reviews seem to be back to normal, the line is skinning up butterflies which is also a futile pursuit, no elves involved, the expression duende kind of means with spirit, huevos.if you , will, cheers

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Spanish lesson appreciated fella!