RE: This is Just To Say
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I hope you don't mind my saying that I liked the original better. I didn't have to work as hard to feel my own feelings. It packed a punch that this version has diluted. I have not gone back to compare the two, so perhaps this notion of mine is simply because I have read it before. But I seem to remember that it stopped at the end of her poem, no? Which left me chuckling at her brilliance and resiliency.
I am intrigued by this bit:
He will do it without a trace of embarrassment for such a grandiose and ridiculous gesture, so illogical and unscientific. He will do it to attempt a final goodbye to the feelings that will threaten to tug him earthward until it is impossible to feel anything.
which leaves me wishing there were some way she could know that.
Still love the poems!
Oh it's really great that you read both. Thanks soooo much for your critique! Theres something so poignant about the separation of people via space travel.
Have you read Station Eleven?
I don't think I have, unless I read it decades ago, when I was on my sci-fi fantasy kick. Should I?
It's up to you! I don't know what you like to read. I loved it, and loved the series as well.
And I always love that you speak honestly ... I don't always rate gushing praise when clearly there are flaws!