Poets Help me out...

  • GoldFishFighting
    18 years ago

    Hi Poets....

    Yes this is for school...So please serious inquiries only...
    What do you get from reading this poem.... I've read it several/tens/twenties...of times...and Me not much of a thinker/poet and still not find anything interesting about it...

    STEPPING OUT

    A young girl sits on her floor crying, something in her
    heaves and empties. She is young and beautiful in that
    way of young girls, awkward in her new breats

    and endless legs. The night before she did some drug
    with her friend and in her vague memory she remembers
    them kissing, his finger fumbling under skirt,

    on her thigh, trailing to the elastic band of her underwear.
    She remembers his lips mostly. What she doesn't remember
    is the other girl, the girl whose small intestine she ate.

    The way she held it in her hand like a broken bird. The way
    she dipped her head in like a lioness from a pack on Discovery
    Channel. Her mother once told her that the lions

    were just protecting the sleeping zebra. She made her change
    the channel, but not before a lion lifted its head up, the red
    rim of blood clearly visible. Now on her own lips

    remember that warm skin wetting them when she chewed,
    her left molar imprinted on the girl's second rib.
    And now she is deciding how she can live with this.

    How she might shuffle into the sunlight of a prison yard,
    the way she used to enter a room like a pair of young bucks,
    antlers enveloped in fuzz. The way they step out from woods

    as a young firl leaves her childhood. Puberty, her first lace
    dress, the timid toe put out, then hint
    of a leg, then all that open lovely.

    by Amy Mitchell

    Any help would be greatly appreciated,
    GFF

  • lisa marie
    18 years ago

    actually i think it is awesome. i like the way the sentences are fragmented. i like how the grammar already is. it's a wonderful poem with an interesting structure and the descriptions were amazing.

    i really enjoyed these lines.

    were just protecting the sleeping zebra. She made her change
    the channel, but not before a lion lifted its head up, the red
    rim of blood clearly visible. Now on her own lips

    remember that warm skin wetting them when she chewed,
    her left molar imprinted on the girl's second rib.
    And now she is deciding how she can live with this.

    i think it will be boring if you fixed the grammar and fragments. I believe that the way it's already structured makes the words stand out more. That's just my opinion though.

  • GoldFishFighting
    18 years ago

    Thanks to all who helped.

    GFF