The audience can assume what happens, but in the poem the poet challenges the audience to take the perspective of the character. To fantasies as an adolescent and be helplessly taken away by sheer blood rush.
With this in mind, CLIMAX, the title, does not accurately introduce the more euphorically vague poem. Instead i used it as a one word preface to catch the reader (who expects this poem to open up at a fast pace) in a slightly awkward position -to give the sense of a man/boy who is not under the Complete influence of teenage hormones (otherwise it would have been Much more awkward) yet still unexperienced.
As I reread this poem I feel that some mechanics did not work as consistently as I hoped, yet, because it was nothing specific in the poem I was not able to point it out; thank you very much for mentioning this the way you did! -simply the way you articulated click in my head. (about my short lines in this poem)
I delivered this poem Exactly how I wanted to (this was the rhythm and structure I chose for particular reasons), yet at times it does not seem as fluid nor as lucid as I hoped.
-"mind-rape"- I did not intended to make it appear that way. I wanted a strong vivid description of tension. . .
Am glad you mention these line (He quickly approached . . . He wandered).
When I wrote this poem I wanted it to entice a wide degree of readers, both average and sharp readers. These lines I used as a point of departure -indicated by the pause then sudden raise in tempo also it is the break where fantasy turns into questionable reality(to the character)- , from this line on the main character, the curious dumbfounded young man, loses his sense of reality.
Again, Thank You for your comments and interests!!!
(I will post others I have left out now.)
- Christian000