I have reread this several times, and I always find that I have more to say than I actually end up sharing with you. Your poetry stirs up feelings that I am never quite sure what to do with. I like how you are playing with the juxtaposition of beauty and gruesomeness. These subjects are the perfect backdrop for the sudden snap in perspective, and you are the perfect poet to write for them. In lesser hands it would be no less than ... well, a massacre. And yet you transcend to something I can't quite describe, but I know I love nonetheless.