Workshopping such versifying labor that I hope each and all appreciate and utilize their own language to talk about the featured poetry. I myself have the fortune to live (amongst other things) with fellow poet(s) and classmate that I/we cannot escape discussion and locating our own specialized though not exclusive language. That said---to speak of Jennifer Dearinger's "Night Lamp" I need to speak of "Nepenthe." Nepenthe that mythic space of ambrosia simultaneously is that Big Sur window a few hundred yards from the Henry Miller library. But Nepenthe maps a larger poetic landscape other than Miller's archives, including Kerouac--if not the poet, but the San Francisco alley, and Josh Clover now of UC Davis, although I am not sure if he still has his atrium in the Berkeley flats. Somewhere triangulated in this landscape is the personae's aethetics. And in this space I inscribe "Nightlamp." It is an evocative invocation to suggest poetic time (conflation of now and then, future and past, digital clocks and 50s era poets, although again Clover perhaps is a timetripping ex?-punk afficionado). The digital clock illuminates this poetic landscape and is a permissive landscape where Boticceli recapitulates a brown Venus, and from a doorframe, mindframe, pictureframe. Is it architecure that permits the man, certainly not mollusk. It is in this mythic/poetic time, that the personae observes "men performing masturbation." Mind you emphasizing the exhibitionism of "performing" as well voyeurism (more to be said about that later). "Performing" reminds of the labor and deliberateness of masturbation. Further it is also a time/space permitting "nude performance." Okay I am at work and dinner has arrived (while carbon dating physicist from LBL drink microbrew). Next time. --sean manzano labrador