How easily things can be broken.

"The Arm"

This poem at first gave me great confusion on why this man would talk about a baby doll. Then when I read

on into the poem he explains different scenarios that could have happened to this baby dolls arm floating in

the bond as he is walking his dog. First he starts with two sisters fighting over the doll and one of the sister

rips the arm off. This thought came to my mind that maybe he watched his two sisters fight over their baby

dolls when they were younger. He then states how there is a lily pad that is shaped like a heart in the pond

which kind of through me off because it really has nothing to do with this baby doll arm. He then starts to

search for this baby dolls body to see if it was floating in the water or anywhere on the side of the pond.

Another image came to his mind that maybe this little boy was playing with the baby doll and that his father

whom did not like that fact that his son was playing with a girl toy took the toy away but all he ripped off was

the arm. So it kind of puts a thought in the readers mind that maybe this man that found this arm was a little

boy who liked playing with baby dolls, but his father did not like that he played with them as a child. Toward

the end of the poem this man is trying to retrieve this doll arm that is floating in the pond, to do what with,

take it home, and of course his wife would be questionable to why he brought this doll arm home. It is

possible that this man, when walking his dog finds weird, broken things and brings them home.

"Highway 12, Just East of Paradise, Idaho"

This poem gives me thought of driving down in back road in the hill country where there are a bunch of 

woods and brush that deer would like hid/live in. It seems that he is driving down this highway at night time 

with other cars, when he witnesses the other truck hit this doe that had ran out in front of him on the highway. 

He explains how the doe's face looked when getting struck by this truck, "I saw her tongue / extend and her 

eyes go shocked and vacant" (Wrigley 3-4). He explains how the doe is slung across many yards where she 

then hit a pole with her neck and spun her the opposite way out of sight. Th man says "For which, I admit, I 

was grateful, / the road there being dark, narrow, and shoulderless, / and home, with its lights, not far away." 

This man was very happy not that the animal was killed but because it wasn't him that hit the doe is was the 

driver next to him. He makes it seem like it is very late at night in which that he is almost home that is just 

right down the road.