This is a very moving poem and easy to relate to. Brava!

Ooh, this is good, highly relatable! :)

"flop its belly into the pavement, into/a single swan-dive".. The belly thing made me think it was belly-flopping which is not at all a swan dive. In a swan dive your belly wouldn't be what hits... that confused me.

In that last couplet I think as semi-colon at the end of the first line would be good 'cause they are each sentences, but I think connecting them with that is better than a period which would separate them too much.

I loved the personification of a poem here. I think anyone who writes poetry can understand how much weight poems carry for the person who writes them and I think you showed that well.

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The last two lines are very powerful.

the ending - so lovely.

although I do think you mean "taut" as opposed to "taught" in the second line of the second stanza :)

- Leila