I'm sorry it's taken me so long to reply: I'm sorry it's taken me so long to reply; but definitely thank you for your kind words; I live every day, trying to live in a way that would make her smile, to not ever let her down, and I hope I've succeeded.
I am very flattered by, and: I am very flattered by, and thank you sincerely for, the inclusion. The short lines have the effect of a rapid conversation.
Responding to this poem is: Responding to this poem is like catching the heat that pours off the sun. I like the Bowl event in the backgrouns while personal and intimate pleasure happens in the foreground.
I wish statements like: I wish statements like this---both reasonable and uncompromisingly assertive---had existed when I was an adolescent. I would have felt less alone with my given nature.
Gooey, dew-laden with the: Gooey, dew-laden with the warm familiar texture of your elevated fair-play or safety language; particularly, I remark, the stretching tendrils of plasmatic matter gropes fishfold, see?