It occurred to me after I sent the comment that they really weren't, or didn't have to be, prose poems. My bad assumption. But I do like the thought processes. The narrative arc you refer to involves choices that are interesting because they surprise.
Yea. I'm mainly influenced by John Ashbery and Frank O' Hara right now, the poems I post before these were more James Schuyler/Robert Creeley inspired. So I'm glad you noticed and liked the thought processes. Have you read much Ashbery?
I haven't read much Ashbery. I note that people tend to roll their eyes when they say his name. :) I like O'Hara and the Ashbery I was scanning to remind me of what little I know did suggest the narrative arc you refer to. He apparently claims to be in what I would call the deliberately oblique school of non-surrealists. Which may be my half-baked label for the New York School. I better stick to simple enjoying your work and I keep reading him too.
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I didn't intend them to be prose poems. But I guess they do have a narrative arc and the line breaks aren't all that important.
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