The Slam: Slammables

Girls Like You

by Erica, Missouri

Between the flowers,
so kindly embedded in your china,
you began to see spaces.

Bone-white caverns and trenches
pregnant, not with pollen and scent,
but with gasoline and hydrogen and acid and heat...

and all it takes is a hot glare.

It's girls like you who blow up the china.
Who will walk the world with slivered blossoms in their skin.

Slammings

I really enjoyed this poem. It has a certain allure to it, but I am not quite sure what it was. I am not sure what you are trying to communicate, but that just keeps me coming back to read it again and again. Great job!

critiqued by H.C.M., Colorado Springs
May 17, 2010

I like this a lot... I'm not sure exactly what it's supposed to mean, but for some reason I feel as if I can relate to it.

 

It's girls like you who blow up the china. / Who will walk the world with slivered blossoms on their skin.

 

That one line struck me as beautiful; the other ones are, too, but this one for some reason caught my eye. I can see it so clearly, yet I have no idea what it looks like.

 

And even the words that don't fit in with everything else look nice. I would like to tell you something to help you fix it, but I don't really think it needs to be fixed. I like it just as it is.

 

Good job and keep writing!

critiqued by laikabaika
May 17, 2010

I cannot figure out whether this is an accusation, a lament, or a celebration. But I like that I cannot figure it out. At first I thought it was angry and in a hostile way, a look into the sentiment that stews and eventually bubbles up from beneath skin. But reading it again, I can see how it could be celebrating this danger. Hmm. It makes me think. I like that it isn't too clear-cut. And the last phrase is lovely. Good job.

critiqued by Liz, Pennsylvania
May 22, 2010