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Fotini Masika's avatar

Angela, your poem is truly astonishing. Thank you for sharing it with us.

And happy birthday!!!

Angela Cummings's avatar

Thank you, dearest Fotini!

Kim Nelson's avatar

Wow!

First -- the video. I watched it on my laptop, zooming in to get a really good look at the frost. the details fascinated me so much I had to watch it again, and then again. I felt like I was in a favorite science class. Thank you for that!

Second-- the poem. I find it hard to believe you wrote and posted this on the same day. Please tell me this is revision #28! It is so good. The diction and imagery simultaneously delight and inform. I mean... these lines!:

"to find us,

born

not as accidents

but artifacts

of the sublime"

💛

The turn is smooth as an icy surface and the last two stanzas speak to one of life's critical questions.

Stellar work.

Angela Cummings's avatar

Kim, thank you.

That hoarfrost is soo beautiful and delicate—it crumbles if you touch it. We don’t see it very often as it’s usually too warm and wet for it to form.

The poem—I am grateful it spoke to you. I try to write a new poem on my birthday, which yesterday was. Thank you for appreciating it. 💛💛💛

Lord Jeffrey's avatar

I really enjoyed that! <3<3