If ever you wondered how to address a cruel reviewer...

scroll down to Nicholas Manning's and Douglas Manson's comments at Michael Tracy Thurston's blog, The Poetry Pill.

The body is an archive
The breath a convolute
A collection sung for no one
But to remember it has danced

Compendiums when you point
With your eyes to what it did
And can not do, this also being useful
The body fails but it survives

The body as an archivist
Kissing all relation, tells us what
We did, the failure of this doing
Called career, called smallest hope.