Critique 9

The Colonel by Carolyn Forche was an interesting piece of writing.  It is very hard to distinguish it as a prose poem because it looks like a short story.  Personally, I can't help but think of it as a story.  I think it reads more as a story, due to its paragraph form and normal looking sentences.  It does have a more poetic sound towards the end, but not really overall.  I did enjoy this the story within this poem, though it was not what I expected.  The imagery of the human ears was somewhat vulgar, but it did add intrigue to the story.  There is a lot of simple imagery, yet I could clearly picture the scene.