PoemBowl 8

As a reminder, this is PoemBowl, where you get to decide which poem emerges the victor and which is consigned to the dustbin of my hard drive! This is the FINAL match-up of the first round, it all gets easier from here. 


These two poems have one thing in common: they're very long, especially by the standards of my "four stanzas and it's done" traditional practice. Hopefully it's not so long it's impossible to wade through them, but if it is I understand.


Thanks once again for helping me out!



NOTE: My poems "Notes on the Act of Love" and "Taking Things Apart" used to be here. Now it's not. What gives? 

I'm preparing to submit poems for publication and almost every literary journal demands "right of first publication." Unfortunately — and laughably — this small corner of the Interwebs counts as prior publication, so they gots ta come down. Sadface. 

Click here to choose a winner!