Re: a comment on Firestorm by Dovina	25-Feb-07/6:25 AM
Perhaps the description is weak. Maybe my comparing the colors of a summer day and night in the Lower Mississippi Valley to the colors of Southern California during a firestorm in the mountains above the city “seems to have confused you.” Or you are confused as to whether you are confused. In either case, the thing is likely not apparent to someone who has never seen the two scenes, and I should make it so. It’s the differing attitudes toward normal workings of nature that’s the thing I was struck with, and wanted to convey. Many a negro maid in the South would understand if she moved to California and witnessed a firestorm; as might a borrow boy from California, awaking for the first time in Mississippi.
Re: a comment on Firestorm by Dovina	24-Feb-07/9:47 PM
I suppose that back in Merry Old England, you have never seen hot pink evenings, morning yellow murk, or orange nighttime ridges of the San Gabriels during a summer firestorm. It’s the way of things here, like the rising of the Thames after heavy rain, or the bloody sun rising over a Mississippi morning. Unsophisticated? Yes, it’s why we left.
Re: looking for by Phalkon	24-Feb-07/10:26 AM
pointlessness, writer's block, man-as-machine - dismal topics overdone.
Re: Mexican Monday by A_Dark_Calm	20-Feb-07/3:47 PM
Ah, the insensitivity of lovers to the intricacy of words, to the seemingly unwitting lush outsiders feel, to the goddess whims of the neglected, or angelic twitters of the left. To be in love is a splendid thing, far better than poetry or idle chat. Best wishes.
Re: a comment on Why I’m Homeless by Dovina	19-Feb-07/9:02 PM
To see someone and picture what he thinks. That's all.
Re: Journey by madamefrufru	18-Feb-07/4:12 PM
You might try commenting on more than one poem before posting another. This one is particularly lacking in particulars.
Re: Working Title by MacFrantic	18-Feb-07/4:06 PM
I don't get it, as if it's to somebody in particular who knows the context. Maybe if you say what the working title is.
Re: a comment on Les Imagistes by Nicholas Jones	18-Feb-07/4:02 PM
What good is an arm to me? Amputated, packaged and mailed, I’d have a disposal problem, and the garbageman might ask questions. Nevertheless, I can produce a duck as you describe and will do so upon receipt of the arm. BTW, is it a hairy arm?
Re: a comment on Captured by Dovina	16-Feb-07/9:49 AM
I can't imagine him as Paul Bunyan just because he swings a pick, handles a shovel, and pushes a wheelbarrow. And nothing is said about the size of his "member." Her finger is tiny compared to his. Maybe I do need to clarify, since several people are misinterpreting - some of course for their own reasons.
Re: a self-conscious lack of denial by nentwined	16-Feb-07/9:39 AM
A couple of wines and all is fine.
Re: Plurals by -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.	16-Feb-07/9:27 AM
The plural of “-=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.” is “-=Darkies_Angel=-, Private In flagrante delicto.”
Re: Friday's Monday's June by Enkidu	15-Feb-07/7:16 AM
Friday's Monday's June takes a while to parse and makes a riddle out of it. The rest is quite nice in its obscurity.
Re: Complaints by jessicazee	15-Feb-07/7:10 AM
These sound like happy complaints of two who have worked hard and have some minor pains. That's just an impression though, because it isn't very clear. If "hot cocoa stains" are sweaty dirt on shirt, then good description.
Re: a comment on Captured by Dovina	15-Feb-07/7:01 AM
And thanks for seeing them as fingers.
Re: a comment on Captured by Dovina	15-Feb-07/6:58 AM
For a moment I thought of myself a lion trainer, holding a chair in one hand and a whip in the other, but quickly got off that wagon. It comes from the lion image in S2. Thanks for diluting the naughty reactions above with “nicey-nice.”
Re: Topography by MacFrantic	14-Feb-07/9:39 AM
"Beauty belongs in the distraction" Nice line.
Re: Yet more woe by Stephen Robins	14-Feb-07/9:36 AM
Nothing compounds the shame of having erupted from ordinary gay teacherhood into temporary statutory rape more than the condescending cooing of a delightfully plump cockney poeme. As you lick your fingers, a poor man on his way to an important assignation, you must find a way of cleansing your trousers whilst bewailing lack of moral rectitude and vowing never again to take the short cut through shambles where the temptation of speedy relief from a brazen young wench is all too enticing. 10 (parody? - yes)
Re: To my Valentine by Lola	14-Feb-07/9:17 AM
Very touching, you two, but hardly of general interest. Enjoy your love.
Re: The Medium of Dunce by Ranger	12-Feb-07/6:18 PM
I stumbled over the “Not” in line 4. Omitting it makes a better read for me, but you probably have something else in mind, perhaps that she doesn’t understand the visions in the glass, but can only speak them. Also, the semicolons distract, and would better become commas for this reader. I love line 2 = 8. Well crafted.
Re: a comment on Captured by Dovina	12-Feb-07/3:29 PM
I've never been an orca with dorsal fin rising erotically beside his, but that doesn't stop me from knowing her twitches. Just ask --=DA=-PI.