There are a lot of things I like about Drew Gardner’s poetry. Last night, listening to him read/perform in a Soho bookstore, I made a list of some of them:
names: news anchors, actors, pols
short and/or mundane words: mad, sad, sandwiches
animalia: sealife in particular — seemingly endless supply of whales and tortoises — also hamsters and ORGONE GOPHERS (a phrase I instantly commandeered)
humorous self-deprecation (always good)
duly noted also: a groovy scale he played on his electro-keyboard — pentatonic? Drew, you tell me…
Otohime 
wish i hadn’t missed it
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The animalia riff from < HREF="http://mainstreampoetry.blogspot.com/2003/04/money.html" REL="nofollow">Money<> is actually “argon gophers” but “orgone gophers” is a fantastic mishearing-improv-edit on your part.The scale I used for that poem was a flat-two dominant scale with a flat 6, sometimes called a Spanish scale by jazz players, the interval set is common to a lot of middle-eastern and Klezmer music… Miles Davis uses it in < HREF="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4555394" REL="nofollow">Sketches of Spain<>Drew