I enjoyed this challenge…
Good evening fellow scribblers and welcome to tonight’s MTB session.
Contrapuntal music is composed of multiple melodies that are relatively independent that are sounded together. In the poetic world, contrapuntal poems are poems that intertwine two (or more) separate poems into a single composition.
Tonight we are going contrapuntal.
Here is a beautiful example with explanatory notes from the poet.
Aubade Ending with the Death of a Mosquito by Tarfia Faizullah
—at Apollo Hospital, Dhaka
Let me break
free of these lace-frail
lilac fingers disrobing
the black sky
from the windows of this
room, I sit helpless, waiting,
silent—sister,
because you drew from me
the coil of red twine: loneliness—
spooled inside—
once, I wanted to say one
true thing, as in, I want more
in this life,
or, the sky is hurt, a blue vessel—
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