Comments by All Members
- "I have this thing about yellow. We're estranged and I'm always looking to mend the gap, but we just operate on different frequencies. Yellow is so bright and uplifting and I close my curtains at the first sign of sunlight. You're so yellow, but you have these blue glowing creases and cracks all over you that I want so badly to put my fingers into. This was pleasantly palatable probably because poems play so pretty from your purview. "
Posted by Lolita on "Powder Parallels " by Maladroit
- "Pretend? No, this is more real than most things I have know in my life, if not the most. A surreal read. Your lines are thick with virtue and destiny. The speed and breaks, almost like breathing in syncopation with an outer wonder fantasy. Love... "
Posted by tmanzano on "Swaying Silent" by Maladroit
- "I thought the poem itself packed a punch and then I read the note and and was floored. "gavels spitting in our faces,/ punishing crackheads like killers/ and rapists like they forgot to buckle their seat-belts-/" if that isn't the fucking essence of the insanity it is to not be a cis man in this society I don't know what is. And if I could be petty, the sweetie and the pretty when you're angry, no shade, but that shit pisses me off, especially in the shadow of a piece like this. And the funny thing is, nothing about this struck me as violent. Not even the platform of castration. Because calling survival violence is to make a criminal of a victim. There is no violence here. This is truth, and we could all use a little more of yours. Commentators included."
Posted by Lolita on "Reservation of Violence, Tapped" by Maladroit
- "This is one of the best love poems I've read in an awfully long time. When you have kids you see galaxies in them, I know, but to feel it so keenly as to spin nebulas from it yourself with your words makes me feel like it's not so much of a stretch to think you have god's hands."
Posted by Lolita on "Swaying Silent" by Maladroit
- "That first stanza is a masterpiece all on its own as far as I'm concerned. It's painful how viserally I relate to it. And yet there was more. An explosive beginning and then a gentle coming back down to earth with a part of me still pulsating like you left a bruise. A sequence of events that I'd bet are familiar to you. If your poetry has taught me anything it's that I certainly wouldn't mind being left in your capable hands."
Posted by Lolita on "Pertaining to us" by Maladroit
- "The bond exists like no other ever has or will Mala. Body English and face language can speak volumes in loving tones of tenderness. My grandson is also autistic...
Cheers and kudos - Dan"
Posted by dwells on "Swaying Silent" by Maladroit
- "Maybe you only think you're pretending. Your words are otherworldly and wise and accepting and capture the spirit of unconditional love so achingly beautifully."
Posted by Amaryllis on "Swaying Silent" by Maladroit
- "oh, how gorgeous this is. i am glad that he has you to care for him. autism is one hell of a thing. "
Posted by Star on "Swaying Silent" by Maladroit
- "Funny how trying to get someone to see what you're seeing often feels like a blunt instrument. Reading this under a street like in the mist at a bus stop felt fitting for some reason."
Posted by Lolita on "Allocating Sun Rays" by Maladroit
- "It sure is a drag when the perfect stories and thoughts come attached to a bundle of unsure and deviating personality quirks. Unrefined ore or something. But it's worth it to pick their brains. Picking your brain would be a wild ride."
Posted by Lolita on "DNR" by Maladroit
- "Seeing someone else frying on their flaws and picking them like daisies because they're so pretty to us, in a certain room, in a certain light. I really enjoy how sinister this felt. Makes me want to lose my mind just so you could write about it."
Posted by Lolita on "Organic You" by Maladroit
- "I gotta say, there's nothing quite like those moments building up to something you know you shouldn't do but have no intention of not doing. Yeah, love is better, yeah connection is nice, but let's be real, reach your hand into someone else's honeypot is exhilarating in a way trust and communication just never is."
Posted by Lolita on "Ensorcelling " by Maladroit
- "So I came here intentionally, trying to go as far back into your brain as I had access to. I've fallen for my share of poets, and they're never as forever as their words seem to be, in my experience. Maybe I just know how they look at me because it's how I look at them, and what does that say about me? There's a selfishness in distilling people into poems, and there's a wonderment in being distilled into a poem, but poets leave out a certain wholeness, or they have in my experience, when I've been distilled. It's terribly tempting to be romanticized. To exist in someone else's metaphor for you. Never fall in love with a poet has been my mantra, and yet. Anyway. Gosh, what it must be like to parade colours with you. This was so familiar."
Posted by Lolita on "Sex with a Box" by Maladroit
- "Honestly? This may be the best compliment I've received. I think that is an optimal place to be with my writing. I'd like it to feel like that, always. "
Posted by Maladroit on "Eye Eater" by Maladroit
- "I'm learning you have a way of writing that makes the reader feel like you're making eye contact with your words and speaking to them directly. Or maybe that's just me. This is dope."
Posted by Lolita on "Eye Eater" by Maladroit
- "I can appreciate how learning to appreciate our parents isn't always soft and warm and often it's jagged and raw and cuts us deep. This felt assertive in a way that kinda dared me to undermine the outcome of your mom's work. I don't think I will."
Posted by Lolita on "Gaslighting Baby" by Maladroit
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