Lines Written On A Paper Bag While Waiting For My Wife Poem by Max Reif

A complete poem in every sense-compression, reconnection & expansion, lyrically narrative & narratively lyrical, and best, it is new.

This is a great poem Max. I love the way that ivy is connected to home. It is at once something binding and yet sinister as well.

the vines are her own. this is how i interpret 'ivy' at the present. i thought this was special, Max. Sus

I like the title. It's what drew me to the poem. I'm not sure about once (and how it is punctuated) as a pivot word in the first stanza. I would either punctuate it surrounded by commas or change to 'Once things were not so old./Then 'ivy' meant the ivy...' - I defintely wouldn't capitalize Home. - a good read though, thanks for sharing.