“These girls wear sex like lipstick. I think / this one’s the Undead. Heavy-lidded, / pawing the air like a drugged kitten, / stilettos piercing holes in the scuffed-up / linoleum.” —Melissa Stein, “Aquarium” @ampoetryreview.bsky.social voltagepoetry.com/2014/02/27/j...
There are many ways to evaluate and measure the strength of a turn so, I would like to reflect here on how turns successfully build the energy of a poem and effectively direct that energy towards t…
