What did you notice? Here are three elements that drew my attention. Kylie and Amah didn’t visit each other often enough. One hundred butterflies took flight in Kylie’s belly. Watch for how Greanias changes punctuation, and how the words in reverse order have an upside-down meaning as well. Let’s look at the opening and closing of Amah Faraway. The reverso poem reflects the change from distant to close using the same words.
There is a clear moment of change in the middle, and the sensibility of the poem at the beginning is very different from the sensibility at the end. The poem is also about establishing a closer relationship between two characters who are distant at first. In her Q&A, Margaret talks about wanting to try a reverso form and choosing this particular story because of the travel element–there’s a natural movement to and from that matches the way the poem moves to the center and back out again. Why does this story work well in this form? Here’s an example from picture book author and poet Marilyn Singer:Īs you can see in this short example, you can change capitalization and punctuation to make both halves of the poem meaningful. A reverso poem is structured so that the first half of the poem is repeated in reverse for the last half of the poem.
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