has properties, tension, behaves differently
from the rest of the water. If you fell
onto it from a height, you would bounce.
The surface would reject you, say
I’m a solid too – we can’t both be here,
but then the rest of the water would accept you,
take you into itself, pull you down
away from the surface, saying I’m sorry,
I want you, come in.
2010
Shorty
Contemporary
2022
Mental Health
Nature
Bleeding Title
when the title of a poem acts as the first line
Caesura
a break between words within a metrical foot
Couplets
two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit
Dialogue
conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie
Enjambment
a line break interrupting the middle of a phrase which continues on to the next line
Personification
the attribution of human qualities to a non-human thing