Until last year, I rarely wrote a poem over a page long. Now, my current manuscript, The Weather in Normal, has four poems of 3+ pages, the longest being 'Scar', which also constitutes my chapbook of the same title from Shearsman Books. I've now read it for an audience twice: in Edinburgh in July, in my hometown of Normal, Illinois in September. Reading the entire piece in a single go raises a number of difficulties, most significantly the alternation of multiple voices/persp