River -

I think your poetry is quite good, reminds me in many ways of some of Emily Dickenson's pre-modernist work. You do a great job of weaving images together, and while I'm not usually a huge fan of free verse, I think you do a good job of creating and sustaining a mood without being overly verbose, which free verse can sometimes do.

I hope you're saving a hardcopy of these somewhere, they really show a lot of promise!

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