I meant to also thank you for the link to Smoke ... a powerful one ... The way he lays out his poems, the impact sneaks up on you, it seems ... he saves the wollop - the reverberations and the profounder sizzle - at least in these poems for the culmination in a way that works, imo, that I don't see coming, not to the full extent of how he widens the arc...

I wonder if more of his poems beyond these two take up something of the mundane but (potentially) toxic - knives, smokes - and sees his emotional inner self through their lens ... It's a theme that particularly resonates, not autobiographically, but sort of inter-psychically ...