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In What the Men Talk about When the Women Leave the Room, the use of the words "absence," "dreams," and "empty room," create an image of emptiness in a small dimmed room. "The Skunk," creates a beautiful scene of luminous creations. It talks about the eucalyptus, the orange tree, the glamorous skunk. It creates a gorgeous image of a peaceful and fruitful place.

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Enjambment is a poetic device that gives style to a writing. When one idea flows over into the next line, it often mimics a conscious stream. Sadly, for the reader it often makes poems more confusing to read, but easily conveys the complexity of ideas the author is striving for.

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Both poems incorporate the use of various types of figurative language. "The sound of all those women getting up and leaving; all of them like once, like wild birds or hunger." (Martinez) "Love-letters again, broaching the word 'wife' like a stored cask, as if its slender vowel." (Heaney). There is a use of similes, metaphors, personification, and imagery that brings these poems to life and gives them a deeper meaning.

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A: A smell-icopter.

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Both poems use striking pathological approaches to encourage a disheartening, "missing you" kind of mood within the reader.  "The Skunk" employs the words like "silence, loomed, and aftermath."  Correlatively, the author of "What the Men Talk about When the Women Leave the Room" encourages the same mood/ tone through the words "leaving, absence, afterimage, and fear."

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Several incredible symbols lie within the poems, but women and the skunk are the defining characteristics of the Poems. The skunk is given apparition-like qualities and is a representation of the speaker's lost love. The women in the poem by Dionisio are a metaphorical representations of women, inhibitions and love.

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Up, black, striped and damasked like the chasuble
At a funeral mass, the skunk’s tail
Paraded the skunk. Night after night
I expected her like a visitor.

The refrigerator whinnied into silence.
My desk light softened beyond the verandah.
Small oranges loomed in the orange tree.
I began to be tense as a voyeur.

After eleven years I was composing
Love-letters again, broaching the word ‘wife’
Like a stored cask, as if its slender vowel
Had mutated into the night earth and air

Of California. The beautiful, useless
Tang of eucalyptus spelt your absense.
The aftermath of a mouthful of wine
Was like inhaling you off a cold pillow.

And there she was, the intent and glamorous,
Ordinary, mysterious skunk,
Mythologized, demythologized,
Snuffing the boards five feet beyond me.

It all came back to me last night, stirred
By the sootfall of your things at bedtime,
Your head-down, tail-up hunt in a bottom drawer
For the black plunge-line nightdress.

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What the Men Talk about When the Women Leave the Room By: Dionisio Martinez  

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What the Men Talk about When the Women Leave the Room By: Dionisio Martinez  

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The room itself. The women. The absence of women

in the room. What the absence of women does

to a room. The sound of all those women getting

up and leaving; all of them at once, like wild

birds or hunger. How the world can be conquered

if only…Just don’t tell the women.

What the absence of women will do to men

eventually. Fears. Men talk about fears, bad

dreams, women leaving, the room swelling with

the absence of women. Bad dreams have a way

of walking in the room when the women leave.

Each dream is an afterimage of a woman leaving.

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Q: What do you get when you cross a robot and a skunk? 

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Q: What do you get when you cross a robot and a skunk? 

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A: R-2 P-U!