English

Liliana Huerta

5 January, 14:07

The poem "starfish" by lorna dee Cervantes.

They were lovely in the quartz and jasper sand

As if they had created terrariums with their bodies

On purpose; adding sprigs of seaweed, seashells,

whiye feathers, eel bones, miniature

mussels, a fish jaw. Hundreds; no-

thousands of baby stars. We touched them,

surprised to find them soft, pliant, almost

living in their attitudes. We would dry them, arrange them,

Form seascapes, geodesics ... We gathered what we could

In the approaching darkness. then we left hundreds of

thousands of flawless five-fingered specimens sprawled

Along he beach as far as we could see, all massed

Together: little martyrs, soldiers, artless suicides

In lifelong liberation from the sea. So many

Splayed hands, the tide shoveled in.

Reread lines 1-15. How does the description of the "approaching darkness" change the tone of the poem? What happens to