IMAGE OF EARTH AND QUILL

Guest Poet Stephanie Brown


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Right now, the world feels like it's mine. Silent, calm. The street is inches long, and I can pick up the cars and move them where I want them to go. The people are asleep, and the stars are telling stories that only I know the endings to. I watch the moon hide behind dense clouds puffy and solid. I move them with my mouth, pushing the balls of white into the shape of my body.

November 1997


Stephanie Brown's Questions:

(1)Does the middle section, or second 'stanza' (if you could call it that), belong?
(2)Does the form, or lack of form, help or impede the poem?


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with your ideas about this poem.



The Albany Poetry Workshop