Comments on: Second Nature

By: Todd Davis

Todd Davis — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 19:31:04 +0000

In reply to Luisa A. Igloria. Thanks, Luisa. This poem has gone through a few more revisions since I sent it to Dave back in 2008. It's part of a chapbook I just published with Seven Kitchens Press called HOUSEHOLD OF WATER, MOON, AND SNOW: THE THOREAU POEMS. I'm sure it will also become part of my fourth full-length collection that is tenatively called IN THE KINGDOM OF THE DITCH. Here's to your wonderful poems!

By: Luisa A. Igloria

Luisa A. Igloria — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 17:11:41 +0000

These are wonderful lines: “…the sweet tenacity of the bee,/ the waxen comb of delight.” Thank you.

By: Todd Davis

Todd Davis — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:56:23 +0000

Evan,

So glad my poem offered a spark for your thinking. I’m interested in the tangent toward the Bible verse you mentioned.

Leslee,

Thanks for the kind words. Any time a poem resonates it’s a good thing!

Best,

Todd

By: leslee

leslee — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:09:07 +0000

That’s really lovely. Resonant with the melancholy of the season.

By: Evan

Evan — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:34:38 +0000

1. I too often forget the slumbers of the animals, especially my FAVORITE animal, the bee. You reminded me of this oversight.

2. Anything with a predator in it (the hawk) is good.

3. I was left with an urge to extend “…beautiful deaths of usefulness: one life to feed another…” into my own metaphor for something in human behavior. But I failed. I have a bit of a Bible verse stuck in my head and perhaps the animalistic Hawk and the high-moral-plane Jesus are at loggerheads in my brain. Verse: http://www.youversion.com/kjv/1John.2.7