these days

Craig. So deliciously heart full. Miss V

but will stop catch pause myself to just say Craig that you are the most modern poet that i admire for writing in such a style as this Such sharp vision and perspective to leave me with this poem image glad we poets can understand and appreciate greatly the workings that are so dear a subject at times even here without a first cup of coffee on awakening !!!

Your work has just grown and grown and grown. Refined and succulent all at once. You are defining excellence with tossed words. Brian

Exquisitley worded and heartfelt, Craig. This is a short but stunning display of emotion and use of the senses. I love it. Giuliana

I have been somewhat remiss by visiting less often. I am finding it hard to keep up with the swelling stream of working poetry. And you are so able that sometimes are left to your own ample skills. This piece is very good. It has the delicacy of a shy look, which is favoured in romance. And that is also my hesitation: it does not challenge enough, but falls into the step of the expected lover. And that lover is something of a mirage. For the lover will not always defer, and to pretend so is in some way misleading. It may be my failing, but I do not understand the notion of best foot forward. Not that I don't indulge from time to time, but there is also need for the ambiguous, the needy, the frightened, the failing and the lout, such as they exist, to be offered forth, where surprisingly, these necessary parts are often acknowledged and become the cause of inspiration. For they are such significant parts of us all. When I write this way, I image a grimace. But the skilled are subject to certain irritating expectations. That they will push past the expected, past adoration, past comfort, to the places of fear, uncertainty, even shame. They will air the linens not merely sweat into them. I do hope that you will only be able to find modest levels of hypocrisy in this comment when matched to my own work. Brian