The Birthday Cake Posted 2 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: abandonment, Absence, Agency, birthday, Birthday Cake, cake metaphor, Choice, confessional poetry, consent, contemporary voice, cultural specificity, desire and refusal, emotional discipline, ethical restraint, existential ethics, extended metaphor, fragility, guilt without blame, hunger, intimacy without possession, Intimacy., longing, loss, memory, minimalist ethics, modern lyric, naming as violence, narrative poem, non-consumption, philosophical poetry, quiet defiance, Reciprocity, recognition, recognition without ownership, refusal to explain, relational power, restraint, restraint over catharsis, self-possession, silence as agency, silence speaks, symbolic object, trust the reader, unresolved tension, unspoken language, vulnerability, withholding meaning.Title - The Birthday Cake Part I - The Crime of Questioning Like a criminal wiping fingerprints from the scene, if you are still asking yourself was it right or wrong, was it a mistake, Read more from here... 296 views
