Granted Poetry conveying raw emotion through deceptively

conveying raw emotion through deceptively simple lines in which ‘voices cry wait / we didn’t want this / and the wind slams the words / around the corners of the empty / buildings down the empty / streets

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Granted Poetry conveying raw emotion through deceptivelyIn Granted, Jeffery Donaldson explores a universe of potential relation, providing a master class in the art of metaphor by exploring in verse the complexities of identity, perception, and meaning. Metaphor is the substance of things hoped for and the proof of things not seen. It is a building block, not a tower or its view. It is a gift impossible to guess, and not to be opened until you do. Metaphor is coinage dropped so that others might decipher