Fluorescence

Sighted , this poem speaks for it's self.  It's  spaces provided a visual story, because it was spaced so far apart. When you read this you are slowed down because of all the spaces , it forces the readers to read slower. It was two characters in this story , the person that the story was being told about and the waiter.  Although the story has I in it, it is not a first person point of view it's told from third person.This story reminds me more of a poem than a story , because of the form and style of it. It doesn't rhyme but because this story is written in this form it reminds me of a poem.  The title of this story flows with what the story is about. This story is very redundant because when the author speaks he puts things in different tenses. So this story could be considered present and past.
In the Garden, this story shocked me. I thought this story was going to be different because of the title. Then it start talking about sex. As I continue to read I was paying attention to the words that she used, it's very intense and since the paragraph is so close together, it makes it go faster so you read it faster.
All together these stories where very good, the style and form of theses poem created it's on imagery.

Fiction 3

When it rains it rains a river, while reading this it baffled me , as it still does. This story uses a lot of metaphors , somethings you can take literal as well, which made me question is this about one thing or another. This story also used a lot repetition , and it was shared to follow because they didn't say any names. Since this story used a lot repetition it made it's point more clear to the readers. But it also made you wonder why is there so many repetition. It made this story seem like a poem instead of a  story.
For instance , "us brothers , we start to sing. We sing and we sing and we do not stop singing until the rain stops drumming down. There was a lot of repetition in this along. This also makes me wonder what the mud was that they were talking about . When he said "us brothers, we drop down, onto our hands and knees , down in the mud, and we began to eat . I thought maybe they were talking abut mud pies., but It could have been something else as we.
Thia story was different , because I felt like it was all over the place, there were no names , everyone was referred to as brother or girl. Was his brother like different friends or was it just one person. But all around it was a pretty good story, especially after you understand, if you can.

Fiction packet 2

I like the story Intern. I like this story because of the way that it is broken down into different sections.  The first section is called ' My  internship', then when he begins the story reinforcing that this is what he was talking about.
I thought that it was very different that his intern was to watch his mentor/administrating doctor's brother. I would think that he would be assigned something like that. While he was suppose to be observing his brother he had to be careful because of all the things he was considered;  the nervous type, nihilistic, and depressive. It was very surprising that this man was even talking about his brother in this way. Rauch warning to him was not to mistake his brother as being anything good, he was all bad.

Fiction packet

First I would like to talk about the mystery stories " the talking cat". I was really surprise when the man was talking about a cat that speaks it caught me off guard.  But the way he describes this cat makes it seem like it is a human instead of a cat, "I meet the cat and he extends on of his front paws to shake my hand", made it seem like the cat had manners. I like this because he made something that isn't realistic come alive, which made the story that much more intriguing.
Secondly, Walking the baby to the liquor store. When the story started off it didn't seem like he was going to even speak about a child but as the story continued he started to speak about how babies like to go  to the liquor store. Which made me wonder , because a baby doesn't even know what a liquor store is. I like the way he was looking from the baby's point of view instead of his.
Last, the Misdemeanors. This story was funny. The old man who robs a bowling alley for coins but makes himself seem so tough.  I think this story was inteaded to prove about about some of the things people do. Maybe to the old man he felt tough because he never did anything like that... but from an outsider looking in we don't see it as tough.

The "State as Body" Aspect of Eunuch Rule

The "State as body" Aspect of Eunuch Rule, really caught me off guard. When I first looked at this poem it was unclear what exactly he was talking about, but as I reread it , it became clear. In this poem Roberson was talking about him wanting to have children and the extreme measures he would go through, because this is how much he wanted to have to have a child. Eunuch is a man who is celibate, and not inclined to reproduce because he is not having sex. So this could defiantly explain why he felt so strongly about having a child.

 The poem began with "I want to kill for my incapacity to feel", when I read this I interpreted it as his child was his weakness and he wanted to make sure could provide his child with all their needs, he also wanted his child to feel life. Then he went on to say "A bodily exchange. A new body Made not to feel alive". I feel like he was talking about when there's a new life created it can't feel right away but the exchange of bodily fluids creates this new  body. He goes on and explains the process of sex, calling the women genitals the "cherry prize" and the men genitals "Head" .

Towards the end he said " and not his absence I will kill to mate. If even with death." In the beginning he also mention how he would kill for his incapacity. And by understanding the poem title it makes the poem more clear.

after Ed Roberson

I need to get out of here  and say freedom
 I need to get out of here  just for one day
  I should    get out   I will so I can feel
The wind brush against my skin sounds
Of a whistle  as it sounds off my day
If this day     this day could remain
I would         I would make it my
            Forever
                and
            Forever
What else is there to say    but
I lone for a vision of the clouds, and my vivid imagination
In the creation of turning, forming, and dividing
When
         The
               Light is gone
                                  I
                                    Can
                         Kick Back and watch the stars
Blast away  Now that's unconditional
                   Beauty
         I know! I witness it everyday
         Even when the sky throws a temper-tantrum
                  And cries you can still sense the
                     Beauty deep inside

Bird by bird

Bird by bird was very interesting. I felt that it covered every aspect of developing the skills of writing. The author spoke about how she became a writer and how her father was the reason why she started writing. I can relate to this because my father is also the reason why I started to write. 

Also, she mentioned one of the students saying you can't teach us how to write. I agree to a certain extent, you can could give a person pointers of writing , but you can't necessarily teach a person to write because it's what's on their mind and how they choose to convey a message. But when she continued she said she would just let them know how she started writing. Which I personally feel is a good way of teaching.

As I continue to read I  thought these few chapters gave me a different insight of writing, and just by reading these couple chapters the way I think about writing has improved. I know writing it about details, but there is always places that you could potentially expend on. And I think by reading this it's put me in a place to know where I should expand and where I shouldn't.