Review for Christen Chorba for "A Diminishing Season" and "This is Manhattan"

In the poem "This is Manhattan", I liked the way the first stanza is written. I love how you introduce each sentence in the first stanza with "This is..." I really liked that and it gave the poem personality. In the second stanza I like dhow you told the reality of Manhattan. I love the lines " Where the streets soak up the sent of urine and cigarettes" and "The truth wears its disguise well..." one thing that I thought might be cool would be to keep the flow going when u had in the first stanza "this is" I think that would be cool. Maybe u did it on purpose though. In the poem “A Diminishing Season", I love how you describe the season I love the most actually. It’s so true that when the fist snow fall falls, it’s beautiful! I mean it’s really breath taking to see the sight. And when humans interrupt nature like always, it gets all messed up and becomes ugly. I like the final line, “I can’t help but to think during the destruction of this season that it was never the winter I didn’t favor, but our desire to subdue its beauty.” To subdue means to control or tame. I really like this poem. I also like how at the end you change your feelings for this season and realize that it’s what the people make of this quiet but alive season and that is what you do not like.