Dovina8 Apr 2005
The last verse is held hostage to a poeticism called "Internal Punctuation." Some poet had convinced me that itâs ok to leave out commas and periods at the ends of lines, and to include them only if they fall within a line. I think the idea might be bunk. The last verse, properly punctuated, is:
My life reviewed and judged like this
might be considered,
in some dark hour,
not just bunk, but,
as in this ordinary time,
for its just worth.