Nani

I could have been, was. Her insides speak
Through a hundred wrinkles, now more
Than she can bear, steel around her,
Shouting, then. What is this thing she serves?

She ask me if I want more.
I own no words to stop her.
Even before I speak sherves
By: Rios

Rios has beautiful writing form. In “Nani” he only composes the end of each line with one of six words, this is called a sestina. This piece is carefully crafted, you can see Rios’ idea within every line right down to every word. His diction is impeccable. Also this poem is full of the Hispanic culture. It talks about the food, and words such as “arroz” helps the reader understand that it is Hispanic. Also there’s a lot of symbolisms, he talks about the mama that keeps serving him more and more food, but this is also a symbol of her sharing knowledge with him, and how her knowledge is vast.

There is much technical form to learn from Rios. This poem, being a sestina, takes great effort to write, and takes a lot of time. Throughout the poem the six key words are not repeated until all the other words have, and then the last word in the group is repeated to start the nest group; abcdef, faebdc, cfdabe. This ordering of words could be easily applied to my own work; I want to chalnge myself to write a sestina, but also playing around with the order of the words to create my own scheme.