Dominique Rankin


She Reads
She sits there silently,






She reads and looks out the window.
It’s raining; raining hard.
She thinks what if I were free?
Then I could really be me.
One who wishes to be free?
She sits there and reads about the Chinese warriors,
She wishes she could be them.
Living on the edge is what she wants to do instead.
But she’s sitting there reading in her bed.


Dominique did a great job with this poem! She chose to keep the lines short and simple and the punctuation was perfect. She chose to add questions and the poem still kept flowing. She was also very descriptive; and as the readers read it created a near image in their minds. Dominique decided not to have any shifts or chunks. Dominique’s poem “She Reads” has a basic story and a literal meaning.