I love this! Particularly the Hemingway moment!

I love so much of this but particularly “When two people want to join together,” and “You know you had the rest of forever.”

I love the attention to details here, they make it feel so real.

Oh, I really love how the poems about the poetry marathon come on late at night! You did it!

Wow! What a sevenling! That last line.

So amazing. #4 particularly.

The language here is so remarkable. It was hard to pick one line, but here I am “now you know what transformation feels like,

my claws in the flesh of your left shoulder,

This cracked me up! I laughed out loud.

So many of the images here are so strong, including “in flash floods/forcing us into kayaks”

So many great images and ideas. So well done!

Oooh! such good language! I love the idea of this as a first poem for a chapbook.

So powerful! Jacob read it to me yesterday and then I had a dream about it.

Love this!

Oh, how eerie. Strange and beautiful.

These poems are sparse and insightful, beautifully stated but they hold no punches. I felt gutted by that tanka.

Wonderful! I love your haibun’s and the haiku worked particularly well on this one. When I was writing one the whole time I thought what would Sheila say?

Oh, this uses the form so well, and that last line!

This is so well done and describes that REI so well! That last line really get’s to the essence of it.

There is so much impressive imagery in this, and the way that last line undercuts it, it’s perfection!

This is so simple, so beautiful and striking.