Aphelion

great writing's all about language, language, language! And by language, I mean that which surprises, invents, takes left turns . . . such as can be found in Wagner's poem, "Pa and the Devil." However many number of years humans have been grunting out words, it's hope for humanity to find an author ...

Great moments of guilt and internal conflict in Gaynord's poem, In Silence They Return. As readers, we are just as helpless as the narrator, and this creates a synergy that, though sad to experience, binds us to all that the narrator feels.