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The Home Sampler  [E]
Living with an unmedicated person with Bipolar Disorder
by fyn
Review of The Home Sampler  
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Rated: E | (5.0)
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Dear fyn ,

I learned something today when I read this poem, having to look up your use of the word 'basted' in this very intricate poem "The Home Sampler" . When I saw that word I obviously went to a cooking reference and thought how odd. That seems out of place. But, I do my homework before commenting:

In sewing, to tack or baste is to make quick, temporary stitching intended to be removed. ... To easily hold a seam or trim in place until it can be permanently sewn, usually with a long running stitch made by hand or machine called a tacking stitch or basting stitch.

Now, I get a richer tapestry to understanding your poem. And something darker was lurking, waiting for me to fully understand this offering, having missed the introductory description. The use of stitches and describing colors reveals a possible correlation of moods to the disorder told. The narrator trying to hold on to the calm greens by poems end held me, but that temporary stitch wouldn't hold.

I can imagine from that first stanza, this person described is having trouble telling truth from fiction with this disease. You have the character describing tales woven with those colors (moods) that incorrectly inform. With the ending, the image of the needle flying was like something very final, damaging this relationship, shown with it's loose depiction.

I found I could somewhat understand through what I read from this cryptic, poetic symbolism employed from beginning to end -- how it all unravels. Implied 'tangling' and 'knotting' might suggest something stronger, because this person is enmeshed by the struggle to keep it together.

Just a great use of symbolism in relation to bi-polar disorder.

Brian

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