Actually, if asked about the two examples, I would have chosen her writing as poetry, not yours.
If you put yours into paragraph form, I suspect all thought of it being poetry would disappear. That said, I agree with a lot of your observations related to this example of her poetry
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How, then, would you distinguish between prose and poetry, while being consistent with your assessment of those two poems?The only features that give any clue Gorman's writing is meant to be a poem (when you put it in paragraph form) are the random…
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