Round 44

Yusef: "Dear Alter Ego" by Heather Moss

Bob: "Ashberries: Letters" by Philip Metres

{I'm exhausted; this is hard work. I'm only keeping with it because I've been getting adoring emails and blog-citations all week.}

"Dear Alter Ego" is a jaunty poem, beginning like this:

I wish to cancel my subscription to your
deviance, the dither of which could send me
to cloister myself in darkest moorhead . . .

I rather enjoyed it. "Ashberries" has nothing to do with John Ashbery's. This is a beautiful if conventionally well-written poem, quite a find for Creeley. I hate ties, but what can I do?

After 44 Rounds:

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