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April 30, 2010
craneo de un caballo by `jade-pandora exploits powerful and moving imagery reminiscent of Lorca and Neruda to explore the horrors of civil war. Its touch of Spanish complements the poem's spirit most aptly.
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Soon it was clear that the moon
was a horse's skull,
and the air, a dark apple.


The gearshift shudder of
a heavy-laden truck fades,

all the while, the
sustained drone of bees;

past their prime and sluggish,
their wings cannot be stilled.

A dull glint behind the eyes
of a yoked pair of oxen,

standing at a crossroad
between myself and the fields

that bake in the August
of a Spanish sun,

waiting for the
hammer and anvil to sing,

for the echoing refrain
of rifle shots beyond

a stand of distant trees
shimmering from spent cartridges

in the waning afternoon
of your exquisitely curved spine.
skull of a horse

Ever since I read about the Spanish poet, Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936), some of his poetry, his biography, and of his violent death - I've always felt the loss, and the injustice of how he was abducted and executed by Nationalists of Franco's army during the Spanish civil war of the mid-30's. These feelings perculated into the poem you see now.

Credit for the first stanza in italics is from Lorca's poem, "Ruin", which can be viewed in its entirety here: emvergeoning.com/?s=Lorca

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:star::star::star::star: Overall
:star::star::star::star::star-half: Vision
:star::star::star::star::star-empty: Originality
:star::star::star::star::star-half: Technique
:star::star::star::star::star-empty: Impact

Michel here, with a hopefully academic review.
Despite the foreign language un the title which made me expect a foreign language submission, the style and method of narration was very original, and yiur diction and arrangement of lines was very unique. A true free verse form to be sure. That the vehicle shuddered with gears cannot be denied, and beginning like that was a good idea. There were many novel forms of diction worth mentioning: the drone of bees, waiting for hammer and anvil to sing, etc. i feel very sincerely that you have the potential for great literature. It was delightful to read. Keep writing.