“There was no place in particular to go” (136).
“Foggy…hot…for the first few moments…lost” (132)
“Nothing” (93).
“There is no clarity” (82).
“Loop around the lake” (137).
“Loop around the lake” (137).
“Seven mile[s]…flat” (137).
“Just stop it” (146).
“Cavemen and dinosaurs”(183). “…smell rotten” (182).
“Sucked away into the mud” (185).
“Forfeit”? (194)
“Two smells” (109).
“…from [a] distance…” (104).
“innocent” (105) “…butterfly…spotted with freckles…” (127)
“smooth…delicate” (127).
“And yet at close range…” (104)
“…dizzy” (195) “butterfly…spotted with…shame” (127).
“Chaotic…unmusical” (108).
“Partly dead” ( 24).
“[but] they had to” (25).
“No ice, no heat” (203).
“…afterward it’s never the same” (114).
“…inside a book that nobody’s reading” (245).
“Easy, easy, easy” (209).
“Loop around the lake” (137).
“…but it wouldn’t get any easier” (209).
“No moon and no stars” (220).
“Chasing the phantoms” (221).
“Just stop it” (146).
“Ripping off the scabs…and scratching open sores” (221).
“the baby buffalo was silent…nothing moved except the eyes” (79).
“…Alive, though just barely” (79).
“Loop around the lake” (137).
“Loop around the lake” (137).
“He was alone” (149).
2 comments:
Unfortunately, there was a problem with my HTML and the spacing got all screwed up and I don't know how to fix it...Anyways, in putting my poem together, I wanted to capture the feelings of the soldiers when they came back from the war. I wanted to show how they felt like they didn't really fit in anymore and were going in this endless loop that never really took them away from their guilt or from their past war memories. Also, I liked the butterfly motif in the book and included the descriptions of it to help show that from far away the veterans may seems fine, but close up or on the inside they are still suffering. Kind of a sad poem, but I liked being able to use all the descriptions that really stood out to me.
I also apologize that my post is late.
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