Fulfilling my obligations to my long-neglected TBR one book a time. Want to know why? I explain it in the first post here. Posting striking lines daily on BlueSky

If you follow me over on BlueSky, you already know I post lines I find striking every day as I slowly read through one book or issue each week. In my post last Thursday I promised to revisit a poem by Pascale Petit called “The Lammergeier Daughter.” In that post, I highlighted the following lines:

it was I, your lammergeier daughter,
who devoured your bones–look, Father

how they slide down my throat like rifles.

These are the final lines of a poem that has spent the previous eight couplets piling mythological images and allusions on top of each other. The poem very quickly launches itself as an Ovid-like beastly transformation then in the next stanza bounces off a Christian rebirth allegory before landing back in a very powerful recuperation of the master’s tools by eating his weapons. Dizzying!

I try very hard to include a “call to action” in each of these blog posts. The best thing about reading, writing, and enjoying art and all the creativity is sharing with others. Bonding, connecting, geeking out together. So, I heartily encourage you to track down this issue of Poetry, read Pascale’s poem and let me know what you think. You can either email me here using the contact button or you can interact with me over on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/paulpearson.ca

Looking forward to connecting!