One place I've noticed, as a reader, that I don't care for them is following lines that could be read as enjambed or not. It's jarring to read what feels like a complete clause or phrase, think I'm taking up a new one in the next line only to find that the new line doesn't really go anywhere on its own, but needs to be connected back to the previous one.
I don't want to pick on Chris, because I love his poem, but these lines do that to me:
Of the light doomed to serve you as you pass
Judgment on your nose, your eyes, your ass)--
In my crit, I said I thought it was a clever line break, and I still do, but I don't care for the capital J.
Ginger
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