Round 68

Yusef: "In Sky" by Susan Wheeler

Bob: from "Raton Rex, Part I" by Sam Truitt

The Wheeler poem is an uncharacteristic choice for Yusef:

The girl refuses the stadium seating.
The girl mixes lazule and vivianite.
The girl was or was not a mother, this is irrelevant.
The girl's skin shelters; her skin burns with self

Truitt's poem, part of a larger sequence, is equally delightful, with short lines spilling over into one another in a bizarre stream-of-consciousness. This one is a tie, denying Bob his definitive victory.

After 68

19-37-11