All Comments on 'Shopping'

This poem was mentioned in Wednesday's New Poems Reviews.

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It sort of reminds me of a Browning dramatic monologue, with both the subject and the narrator revealed by the end. The are some wonderful lines like "weathered clean of both narrative and meaning' that are just striking. The only word that seemed off to me is "subhuman." It comes across very harshly in a poem whose tone is as tenuous as its subject. Also, you might play with some of the line breaks to get more impact from some of that marvelous phrasing.

In a few short lines you have made me care about this woman and to wonder what is her story and what happens to her