Round 19

Yusef: "Ponderosa" by James Galvin

Bob: "Animals out of the Snow" by Clayton Eshleman

Galvin's poem about a ponderosa tree getting struck by lightning is quite *striking*. It's one of the best I've found in the Komunyakaa volume so far. Eshleman's dream poem is like Dybek's: more interesting for the dreams themselves than for its language. This is the third or fourth not-very-compelling poem I've found from Skanky Possum. Sorry Dale!

Two in a row for Yusef. After 19:

6-10-3