Review for Derek Salisbury

(Scrubbing a Hardwood Floor) The imagery in this piece is very vivid. I particularly liked the lines "Have not I bled the ground soft to step, given enough tears to fill your glass ten times over, and broken my bones so that you remain whole?" I can picture the volatile, self destructive nature of the relationship.
My only real hang-up with the piece is the word "soma." It threw me a little, and when I tried to look it up in the dictionary, the closest I could come was somatic, having to do with the physical. So I took the line to mean that the sex was no longer good, which seems to fit with the content of the poem.
So the suggestion I have is to change the word soma to something clearer.
(Temptation has a Beautiful Face) Again I find myself commenting about the imagery. There are some unique phrases in this poem that just stand out, i.e., "the color of clashing brass", "heavy metal rock n' roll with a harpsichord", and "slow mellow jazz accompanied by screaming violins." You have a gift for descriptive, unique, and memorable turns of phrase.
My one suggestion for this poem would be to run a spelling and grammar check on it. Mainly possessive words seem to be the issue here, i.e., "dragons", and "buses", but there are a couple of other instances, i.e., "repore."