I'd define it as poetry. I'm sure you could play around with it some more, add things, take away things, restructure it - and one of the end products MAY be better, but may not. As it is now it still offers something.

Tools and techniques? Yes... strong image, enjambment, stanza`structure...

I think John Unrau did a good job

I especially like this one though:

Maggie Tries to Connect

all night she has listened for a voice
not her own
behind the guttering of candles,
riffle of cards,
edges of silence
when radio signals fade

she has worn out her lovers,
abandoned her gurus,
exhausted the Goddess
and the last of the wolves

now under this old oak
she waits in winter light
for a pulse of air
to set the dry leaves whispering again
as once or twice at sixteen

the still small voice
the unheard melodies

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