| Posted by Richard Paez on 04/22/03 at 12:08 PM If this is an example of your early poems, I can't wait to read your current-future ones love. This shows a lot of control, in concept, in presentation, in form and in diction. There seems to be a progression in the poem: as it moves from stanza to stanza, the child-speaker grows ever-slightly older, her relationship with the crayons, more chaotic. I also enjoyed the implication of the consequence of expression: the idea that, even at a crayola-young-age, what you draw also draws you. The artist's tools, even blunt, clumsy ones in the chubby-stubby fingers of youth, are surgeons tools she applies to herself: to heal, to explore, to reconstruct. Thank you for sharing this Sarah. Be good and don't stop giving us more! Your friend, {m} |
