To See Beyond The Skin Comments

This is a wonderfully inventive poem and it has to be because you set yourself at least two big challenges: To make the repetition of the title in every 2nd and 4th lines meaningful over seven stanzas! WOW! and incorporating end rhyme throughout. The formal challenges you met - admirably. But it's the many meanings of the title phrase you came up with which gives the poem its fullness. In a late sonnet Mallarme needed a word to rhyme with STYX. He was delighted when a friend suggested PTYX: it rhymed but it had no meaning! Go figure.