Nobody tells you retail teaches you geometry —how to fold a shirt into a rectangle nobody will remember,how to stack boxes so the empty ones look full,how to smile in exactly the shape the customer needsand unfold it the second the door chimes shut behind them.I used to think this job was beneath the person I was becoming.Now I think it is just Tuesday, and Tuesday is also a shapeI am learning to fold.
About free versePoetry without a set rhyme scheme or regular meter, shaped by the poet.
Free verse has no fixed rhyme scheme or regular meter, so there is no rule to check it against. That does not mean it lacks craft. The poet chooses where lines break, how long they run, and what repeats, and those choices shape it.
Listen for Where each line ends, and how that break changes the way you hear it.
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Newer to this than it looks. Writes small, on purpose.
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