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name = Jeff Swenson
email = jeffrey-swenson@uiowa.edu
Thanks for sharing yor work with me. I have only run over the lines with a quick read, so I won't get
into any deep thoughts yet. I may have more later. I'll say this for now: You move your language well
through your series of sonnets. They are fun, but at the same time you work in the gaps to get to a
serious image or two.
"Institutional Poetry" is one I am going to have to spend some more time with. I think it's your least
open poem here, and in that way it is both intriguing and difficult. Though I'll say too that your other
poems reveal and don't reveal at the same time. I appreciate a poet--you--with enough skill to play with
the fuzzy edges of the confessional genre.
I look forward to giving these another, deeper look. Thanks again for sharing.
Your chess pupil,
Jeff
name = Judy Brekke
email = jbrekke@winternet.com
They are good Stephen even better than good. I would like to take some time and digest and dissect each
one.
Judy
name = middle child
email = kravn@eoni.com
poem = A Jungian Motorcycle Reverie
Crash Sonnet
All I want is to ride my Motorcyle .......Only in Ameri-
CA. One last farwell song to the world. I don't want a
pickle I only want to ride my motorrrrcycle.
For a short time I was in the song.....silly yet true.
I enjoyed this Sonnet....A sonet little song,fr.son sound,
,song. I'm the type of person that breaks out in song
with key line up of words. I checked ....14 lines....but
you knew that.
Enjoyed!!!!
Middle one....
name = middle one
email = kravn@eoni.com
poem = Thoughts upon gaining consciousness....
totality of conscious ---awareness. How old was I
before I became a conscious living being.
maybe five......maybe at fifty Five.......
While reading this poem maybe....
pinch myself am I alive....
This is nice....I was there ...
Middle One
name = Charles Robert Paige
email = paigeart@pressenter.com
poem commented upon = sandwich board white bread
The poem is as a painting in the mind and blood stream of ones body. Thoughts to think on and room
for pondering about life itself. Symbols in your writing that could be of any race or gender in its
thoughts. I'm amazed by the thoughts of your writings as always Steve. Peace and good health to you and
all around you---
Charles Robert Paige