Week 2: Fluorescence

              This week in creative writing we started the book Fluorescence. This book was written by Jennifer K. Dick and is a bunch of poems that tell a story. I had no idea what this story was until reading the back of the book where it says how it is about a train crash and explosion. It is a very short book but there is a lot of things to unpack on each page.
              The first poem in this book starts at the beginning. The first line is literally "I want to begin at the beginning the beginning of begin and just begin". After this poem the next one is titled "Anatomy" which was one of my favorites. It read almost as a journal entry, I especially liked how it opened talking about different body parts. The next poem is entitled "Identification". This poem introduces you to the train wreck in more detail even though it is still hard to figure out what exactly happened.
              The second chapter of poems actually didnt have any titles. It was a trickier section of poems of read but you can still pick up some things. One of the things she talks about is an explosion and how the bomb squad came. My favorite section is page 21 which is very spaced out for dramatic effect. It reads "Sometimes only a body is necessary. Sometimes only the body is. Sometimes my hands hold tight, so that". I am not really sure of the entire meaning behind it but I believe she was talking about a body in the explosion.
              The third chapter we went over is the shortest one so far. It was probably the most depressing out of the three chapters. She also spaced out in this one for dramatic effect as well as used paragraphs occasionally. I found it to be my lest favorite of the three chapters mainly because I could not understand it as well.