A Good Fall

[Richard]

Hey Rave,
I like the build here and the payoff. I do have some thoughts though:

Falling in love was good
suprisingly
loving the fall was better -I like this first stanza. Have you thought about adding some punctuation? If you don't want to, I feel like you need to go all in on no punctuation and switch the capital letters to lower case. 

Knowing now
what I didn't then
was that she turned out to be half man -This is a nice twist, However, I think it should be saved for the end of the poem.
beneath the equator -I think that if you're going use this type of imagery, that you could expand upon it. Just a thought.
and so my fall prevented
a confrontation
with that one-eyed stranger -The phrase "one-eyed stranger" seems too juvenile to me, but others might disagree. I would suggest dropping this line. Actually, to expand on my point about saving the twist from above for the end, I would suggest rewriting this stanza to read something like:

My fall prevented
a confrontation:
she turned out to be half man.

This might be too much trimming, so feel free to ignore this suggestion. I just feel like this approach strengthens your point.

I do like this piece, so I hope I wasn't too negative here. I look forward to seeing where you take this from here.

Cheers,
Richard