Round One=Susan Cominos

Susan Cominos works as a freelance journalist and is the winner of the 2010 Yehuda Halevi Poetry Competition which is run by Tablet Magazine. Her work has been in  Forward, Judaism, Tikkun, Lilith, Calapooya and The Blueline Anthology which is a paper run by Syracuse University. She also has work in Quarterly West. In her poem Beached, or demensia It kinda of has a rather dark tone to it;
"in its seaboiled soul. for this
i grow and swim? to mist i
lift my eyes on land. adrift
in absence, the brain—swell
upon swell—falls a slip. the pail’s
knocked over, the spade’s gone"
In her poem "pecan, rodef, clam"
Her peoms also have very interesting stanza and line formats. She often cuts into a sentence as if she were counting the words on each line. Like in her poems pecan, rodef, clam  Beached, or demensia. This example is from pecan, rodef, clam;
"of roots, hung up
on earth. like a palmed
pit, disappeared
into its own
stone jacket. loony
seed
in a rooming house, even
halved, only
one twin per womb."
In the piece Covet I noticed that she likes to use an alomost medieval sounding voice or style to the piece;
"Thou shalt not
bear the winds higher
than they would blow. Thou shalt never
prick halls of glass
with a bow and arrow. Thou shalt fail
to sway the sky"
I also noticed in Covet  how the line and stanza formats are also seeming like they are cut off which ads an interesting voice to it;
"shalt bring in bees
from the hive, swear
allegiance to their stings – sing alone"

Question 1: What made you choose placing your lines and stnazas in a way that makes them continue on the next line?
Question 2: What made you concentrate in poetry or if you have other genres what made you choose them?