I know leaving the grill was the right thing. Knowing it’s there with
mother gives me a sense of security, a sense of solidity. I had to take it out
of our pile to take home three times before she gave in a let us keep it there.
Both of us so stubborn to get our way, but why? Why so much tension and
pressure behind this grill. Just
knowing it is in that cabinet, where it always has been and where it always
should be gives me a sense of warmth and happiness.
Are you here to help or to hurt? H asks It with no response. H’s confused
whether ignore It or to acknowledge It. The mystery the confusion all muddled
into one. Why are you with me? Why are you here? Never an answer or a solution,
just a ride that never ends.
Dear Poem,
What did you mean when saying “Just a sour birth”. How can a birth be
sour and why would you change the context of something so simple into something
bizarre. A sour birth? Please respond.
While reading these pieces in The Ocean State Review I was really intrigued and I got lost in a lot of the poems and stories. They were very mind altering and made you really think about hidden meanings. I loved it. The ones I chose were “George Foreman Grill, George Foreman Grill” by Halina Duraj, “Fickle” and “Nuance” by Jim Elledge and “Sour Birth” by Pierre Joris.
“George Foreman Grill, George Foreman Grill”is about a couple that is going to visit the girlfriend’s mother’s house. The couple cooks on the mother’s George Foreman grill and it, of course, has significance in this piece. The way I interpreted the grill’s importance to the girlfriend was that it almost stood for a common variable in her life. Something that would not change, something that would always be there. I believe she got upset with the fact that the mother was pushing for her to bring the grill home with her was because she thought that so much was changing, that if she took the grill home more and more things that she once knew to be true would change as well. I decided to respond to this piece as if the girlfriend did not take the grill home what would have happened. I changed the scenario and rewrote the ending. I believed she would have less anxiety if she had just kept the grill at her mother’s house and not stressed about it so much. It would have involved less alteration in her life and made her feel more stable.
“Fickle” and “Nuance” were both short poems but had a lot of depth. To me, the poems were about a man seeing a spirit. I believe he was confused as what the spirits purpose was, and what to do about it. Whether It was something that was ultimately going to hurt him, or to help him. I got this impression from when he states “H’s pissed that The Unseen keeps Itself hidden from him when he needs It most” almost as if H looks to It for guidance and direction yet does not receive any. For my response, I wrote an addition to this poem sequence. Writing as if I was the author, continuing the story of H and H is questioning The Unseen’s purpose.
Lastly I chose, "Sour Birth". This poem was extremely brilliant to me. It made me connect with the saying, everything happens for a reason. Although this poem is short, it had so much to say. I liked how it personified the poem, as if it had an opinion as to what it wanted the line “Just as our birth” to say. This connects to so many scenarios of peoples mistakes turning into something to ultimately benefit them or detriment them. I believe everything happens for a reason and this poem just showed an example of that. For my response I wrote a note to the poem, asking it why it changed the context of the poem, and what it meant by it. If only the poem could answer my question…
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