Evening News" by David Ferry - External Form

In Ferry's poem, we naturally jump from line to line like descending a staircase. The poem is done in an almost Q&A type form. A statement and a response, though some of the lines in the middle aren't case in that mold. It seems odd the sentences end on the right column except for the first sentence and sentences begin on the left column except for the second sentence.

I believe the author is making a criticism of the news and how in beautiful silence, some deaths are not covered and only from the distance is a village destroyed covered. However it is those sights that instruct our eyes and teach us about the world around us.