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This is one of your poems that really showcases your talent to imply a huge backstory with just a few lines of a few words, while coyly withholding specific information so that the reader must read---really read---the poem, rather than just skim over it.  And then, in the last line you raise a tower that takes its place with other towers in Poetry---the topless towers of Ilium in Marlowe's Faust; the tower in Verlaine's sonnet, "Parsifal"; and Eliot's allusion to Veraline's sonnet in the fifth section of The Waste Land.  The moe sinister towers of Castle Dracula, in Stoker's eponymous novel, also come to mind.  I like the way you use a single reference, a single line, to resonate through other poems and sources that the reader has visited in the past.  This adds a depth to this poem, and other poems of yours in this aspect of your style.