Poetry or penis fencing which way should I go today?

Today, I feel like a fish out of the water and sitting in the desert or, being less dramatic, perhaps like a single  black bean trying nervously to camouflage in a box of kiwis,  ….. just reading, staring and trying to organize a couple of ideas about what to comment on the “Field Day in Curacao: Poems by Erin Sams”.  I must be honest and say that poetry is not part of me.  Perhaps, in my entire life I have read and enjoyed a few poems by Pablo Neruda (Chile), Gabriela Mistral (Chile), or Octavio Paz (Mexico) and that is it!  I feel bad on making comments on something that I do not know or lack knowledge of, but I will do my best in the following brief sentences.

1.       I can perceive how sensitive and watchful Erin is as a person and her tact to mix those feelings with her experiences in the field.  The transmission of emotions to a reader is a critical step in poetry which drives me to believe that she is doing a good job.

2.       She presents her “world or perception” of different temporal stages of a day with very few orchestrated words mixing subtleness and commonly used words in addition to a few subliminal emotional messages.

3.       What I did not get, perhaps just a personal bias, is whether these poems are concatenated or standing alone.

4.       In short, I think she did a god job presenting her sensitiveness in brief words and with her own style.  From the poetry point of view, I reserve my right of saying more about it due to the limitation of my poetic skills and knowledge.

As concerns for the suggestive title of “Penis Fencing” by Michael Sitvarin, I wish I had read this article before preparing my class for BMZ115 in Fall 2009 on the topic 6 “Sex and the C-fern” ….. Mike’s perspective had opened my mind of other ideas about how to present this topic to my class and his advice on being careful when “googleing” penis fencing would have kept me out of trouble and embarrassment.  A few comments on the article would be:

1.       The article is well biologically argumented without going in detail and uses a few analogies and short passages with a nice tinge of his “personal smart sarcasm”. 

2.       It seems totally directed to people with some level of education in biology or ecology to understand the hold idea.  Although he does a good job in explaining most topics in simple words, there is a considerable number of concepts and processes that he makes reference in the text.

3.       To increase the reader attention, I would mix his pictures (perhaps adding a couple more depending on the paragraph) throughout the text to make it more convincing and appealing to the reader.

4.       Although I enjoyed reading it, this article seems is a little too long. But, it will depend where he is planning in publishing it.  As concerns for me, I have no idea of any suitable magazine for it.

5.       I think that Mike is another person that can clearly convey his personality and way of thinking when he writes, and gives seminars as well!.