Workshop Review I

Poet: Derek Salisbury

Lovely imagery and phrasing in both of Derek's poems, Scrubbing a Hardwood Floor and Temptation has a Beautiful Face.
I love the line in Scrubbing a Hardwood Floor: A stare soft as shade
I wish I had written it.
The tone of Temptation has a Beautiful Face is so strong you can almost hear the strains from a New Orleans jazz funeral procession during Mardi Gras as you read it. . This is a festival of the senses. The masks (of love, desire, death and sickness), swirling colors(iridescent, raised an eyebrow and ruined the color,the color of clashing brass, WOW), the smell(she smelled like the Appalacian air of home...), and the sex( caressing my thigh, her smile offered the sweet proposition of sex, I felt warmth roll over me).
I would suggest using spell check: rapore/rapport. And checking the grammatical usage of the letter 's ' to show possession or plurality:alpha's and gamma's/alphas and gammas