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an orb aglow… bareback on a neon mare… brittle bricks… cold wind… old asylum… little rocking lanterns… the kaleidoscope effect of all this, gives me a Steampunk Vibe. An industrial clank of sounds with a wild bony neon hue. Enjoyed this.

I am now positvely---no, strike that; and let me say, absolutely---convinced that you are a Symbolist in the sense of Mallarme and those who followed in that style of Poetry.  However, so many symbolist poems, like statuary, are static, and motionless; but your poems have extended the style to include narrative and action while still maintaining the compression of a short poem.  Like Stevens' work, your poems require a strategy of reading:  because your poems are not superficial, or flat mirror images in two dimensions, the reader must work a little harder for, and bring an effort to, a full reading.  And, like the best of poems from any era and culture, a full first reading is only a beginning.  When I search for a metaphor or simile to describe your poems, I think of two very different mechanisms---a spring and pendulum clock; and a steam locomotive.  In both, we see movement and power generated by a balanced synchronization of gears, rods, and others parts that work together in a seamless combination to fulfill the function for which the mechanism was built.  Your poems work like this.  And all of this remains, most modestly, beneath the surface on the first reading, as the reader is propelled forward by the ostensible subject matter.  The beauty of the presentation's process follows, on the second or subsequent reading.  This is one of the finest poems you have posted; indeed, it is one of the finest poems posted on postpoems, and you should be very, very pleased with it.