Dang, Gary! You almost made me give you a laugh reaction. Here I was going on about poetry, and you switched to hockey. You know me too damned well. To hockey fans like us, a dipsy doodle down the ice, a finessed deke, and a well-placed slapshot is pure poetry in motion. Your narratives are never frozen on the boards, though they may describe a frozen pond with kids playing hockey.😄
Your comments about engaged readers are very true, but that is because you know your readers as friends and engage them also.