A Whole

*. love this.

I really liked this!

Intriguing title ...

Thank you, Jerry and Ivan!
Erika, it was an auto-correction but it felt like kismet, so it remains ;)

Oh, my! Lovely-sad narrative in your tight short piece. So fine how you structure the piece--and that last stanza is gripping indeed.

Thank you, Ed!

Delicate, exquisite. Tiny, but not.

Brought to mind Shestov's citation of Nietzsche:

"I want it as difficult as any human can have it; only on this condition will I attain the satisfaction of owning something that few people have and have had: the wings that are required for speaking." (an inexact translation, apologies)

So much in so few words. *

Dianne, Strannikov, Beate: I am humbled by your comments. Thank you all!

"You
sawed off my wings then
Asked

Me
to come tell you why I cried."

Very Stephen Crane. That is to say, very good!

Thank you, Bill! I don’t feel I deserve the comparison (but I’ll take it!) :)