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Your four sestinas show that you can use the form for different purposes, evocative (of emotion) and reflective (of experience). Pressing against the constraints with one-word lines and variations of a word ("edge" and "edgey) are all part of using the form. No apologies needed. You used the envoi to great effect as in the lines

But each day, as your frail frame thins, your stomach distends and your hair disappears,

The steel in your blue eyes sets, the plan clearer now more than ever:

Those last three lines are usually your most powerful. And, of course, they are supposed to be. Your strategy of choosing the six words initially actually makes sense. The Sestina- writer Nims says of those words, "six ideas so urgently in his mind that he can not get away from them."

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