Given the comment response you gave to my last critique, I will try to dwell more on the style and content than on the form in this one.

Form: A form is actually more easily recognizable in this poem than the last one. It has a more consistent rhyme scheme and almost seems to fit into a meter most of the time. In fact, with a little re-wording, I do believe you might find a consistent meter to fit into without losing much meaning at all.

Style: I guess I could say the same thing here as the last poem. You have a great style and flow to your poems, however, some lines here and there can be a little wordy at times. If a couple of your lines could be trimmed of unnecessary words, the poem may become better. It's economy of language, I guess.

Content: Again, you shine when it comes to imagery. It might just be the best quality I've read in these two poems. Another thing I noticed was the lack of cliches in this poem, which is why I praise this poem more highly than "Sparkling Water & Northwoods". Cliches should be limited, in my view, to only be used sparingly and for a good reason. Other than that, about everything I said in the last critique applies here as well.

Summary: This is a wonderful celebration of Feral it seems, that, with just a little extra effort, could be even greater. Overall great poem, Wotan!

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I don't want to give you the impression that I sloughed you off with the last comment.
Far from it.
I understand that the very nature of criticism is that it's not always what you might want to hear, and as a general rule of thumb, what you want to hear the least is generally what you need to hear the most. :P I don't have a lot of time for the 'wounded artiste' routine, either from others, or from myself, but I think you already know that.
For the record, I thought everything you said was quite fair and balanced, and I didn't have a problem with any of it.
With regards to the use of cliché, I will also admit that I was sometimes a bit sloppy in that regard in the older pieces, but you will probably see that with many of the newer ones, where I employ it, it's nearly always done deliberately.

With this particular piece, I have indeed considered that it might benefit from a bit of tightening up. Indeed, the time might soon be opportune to revisit this and a few others that were included in my first book (Shattered Images), as I'm looking at doing a second edition of it, and perhaps releasing it in the spring, as soon as I can line up some cover art (as the first edition was simply a plain, black cover).
Hence, revisiting some of those pieces, and tinkering where appropriate and opportune is probably a wise decision. Especially with my pre-2009 pieces, as I wasn't quite as experimental in that period.

Again, thanks for your comments.