Challenge 945

Mirror’s Image

1. In Christopher DeRosa’s The Farmer’s Tale:

   1. Why has Sophia been looking at Elena with hostility throughout the story so far?
   2. Why might Sophia be the last in the group to tell her story?

2. In Bill Bowler’s Warm Welcome:

   1. What kind of political slogans do the politicians quote?
   2. The politicians are depicted as American. To give them a different nationality, would it be necessary to do more than change names?
   3. Where do the space aliens fit in the typology in Space Aliens as Metaphor? Conversely, what role do the humans play?
   4. Does the story have a “reasoner,” i.e. a character who counsels peace rather than an irrational response?

3. In Paulina Guerrero’s Blue Night Full:

   1. Does the mother depart literally or figuratively? Physically or mentally?
   2. Bonus question: Does the story seem to have any resemblance or connection to Joan Didion’s memoir Blue Nights (2011)?

4. In LindaAnn LoSchiavo’s Picture the Holy Ghost: In traditional Christian iconography, the Father and the Son are given human images. The third member of the Trinity — the Holy Spirit — has no such image. Why not? In what way does the poem implicitly point to where the Holy Spirit really resides?

5. In Mike Acker’s There Is Something: The poem concludes with a question. How is the question answered in Luke 12:28?

Responses welcome!

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