Section 2 begins soon and there will be some answers but many more questions to follow in the first chapter. Also, there is a higher potential for dialogue and things blowing up.
Here is Section 1's Epilogue/Closing Poem:
Section 1 Epilogue/Closing Poem
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I like this idea of a poem as a literary device at the end of each of the sections of your novel. Just make sure you have a distinct idea as to why you are employing this device and how it serves your storytelling. For what it is worth, I think it provides some diversity to your writing and it allows the reader--and the characters--to pause a bit and reflect on what has been a pretty loaded section of the novel.
Some questions that come to mind as I read the poem--in no particular order--Will Jack be the narrator of all these epilogues? Should he be? Should these devices introduce new information, reflect on old stuff, or both? or neither? do these help in transitioning the story? Are they supposed to raise such deep questions about your characters or is that stepping outside the literary boundaries of such a device? what is the purpose of the poem? Does your epilogue have to be a poem? Is it too lengthy?
I have no answers to these queries, but this poem does raise some more questions about Jack and Andi and I just caution you, again, to let your story get us to the answers to to those questions (or, at the very least, more questions), and use the epilogues as the connective tissue for that information. You may be doing this, but these thoughts in the poem seem to run into what just happened in the previous scene. Seems a bit close and makes a reader wonder why Jack's thoughts are not revealed in the scene itself or later on, rather than in an epilogue; but I, again, just ask the questions
I must run, but keep up the good work
mr.s
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