Sturgeon's Law

Since I'm getting rid of some of my old journals, I thought I'd mention the notable poems from the ones I'm getting rid of. In fact, the most notable ones will be torn from the journals and put into my files. As with my previous efforts in this area, I will list all the poems that stood out to me, and the ones that I most want to save (or would have wanted to publish) bolded, and people I have some prior connection to (I've published them, they've published me, I consider them friends, etc.) in italics. Today's journal is Smartish Pace 12 (April 2005):

"Rare," Betty Adcock
"Baffle the Dark," Amanda Auchter
"Patriotic," Stephen Cushman
"Keepsake," Bob Hicok
"Manslaughter," Bob Hicok
"A Mind Given to Fog," Bob Hicok
"The Way Back Machine," Bob Hicok
"Pain Rents a Room off Bourbon Street," Darren Jackson
"What They Say," Patrick Kanouse
"Work Ethics," Emily Lloyd
"Interstice," Dawn Lonsinger
"The Inner Workings," Eric Pankey
"Multiples of Twelve," Eric Pankey
"Autumn Diary," Giovanni Pascoli (translated by Deborah Brown, Richard Jackson, & Susan Thomas)
"Capturing a Plum Blossom," John Pursley III
"False Spring," Peter Jay Shippy
"Passing Trains that Barely Slow," Nance Van Winckel
"Passing Trains that Barely Stop," Nance Van Winckel
"Weather," Greg Williamson

That's 19 of 85 I particularly liked, not an especially good ratio but not death either--nor did much stand out to me as particularly egregious or bewildering. Just a little too much in the "functional" range. Van Winckel and Hicok were the clear stars of the issue, though some lesser-knowns did very well for themselves too.