What are Milieu's hours of operation?

[William Shagspeare]

I respect Milieu as someone who knows a lot about poetry and who gives honest criticism. Whenever I post a poem for critique, I always hope that Milieu will answer and give advise, but s/he never does. How does one go about getting Milieu's attention?

If you don't know who Milieu is, then would you just comment/critique on this poem instead?


"Whoa, Man, That's Deep"
Stephen Rodriguez

A duck flew upside down across the sky
and swooped my way, down to the railroad tracks.
He landed, shook his feathers, then his eye
was caught by something shiny in the cracks
between the wooden panels, on the ground:
a golden necklace looped around a spike.
His stance uprightened, then he made a sound
like bikers' horns before a driver strikes.
He prodded at the necklace with his beak,
then got it noosed secure around his neck.
And then the railroad tracks began to creak,
the duck got up to fly, but he was stuck.
The whistle blew, the train's great engine rushed,
he flapped and flapped, then flew and wasn't crushed.

 

[SIN]

tee hee hee

I still like this poem

 

[humpty dumpty]

The kitty cat has a good side?
I was afraid of what the last line would say. Thank God for wings.

 

[DoE]

Milieu answered one of my questions quite a while ago and I'm afraid I rubbed "her" (?) the wrong way. I told her she was a catty cat. I want to read her work because I have read very helpful comments from her and I want to see what she can do, I want to learn - but I have never seen. I love your poem it is rich and wonderful and will watch for you.

 

[Fin]

Not having been a regular here I didn't know what to expect from that title, and I still only have a vague idea, but that's a fairly brilliant little piece of writing right there.

I might tweak a word here and a word there, but then again I tend to overengineer past the point of improvement.

But I'll say this: the wordplay was very clever and satisfying, and the message very skillfully interwoven within the stitch

 

[Elaine P...is for Poetry]

I'm not going to analyze this poem; it has already been done for me by Mr. RB. I also peeked. As far as your writing the "seminal statements" of your generation, I have said this in different words many times. Yesterday, in an email, I said that one day I will say, "I knew him when he was a student."