Crater Face Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGBBHIJKCLMNOCC PQKRCSTUKVWXYCZA2BA2 B2C2D2CE2CF2VCCG2H2C BM| is what we called her The story was | A |
| that her father had thrown Drano at her | B |
| which was probably true given the way she slouched | C |
| through fifth grade afraid of the world recess | D |
| especially She had acne scars | E |
| before she had acne poxs and dips | F |
| and bright red patches | G |
| I don't remember | B |
| any report in the papers I don't remember | B |
| my father telling me her father had gone to jail | H |
| I never looked close to see the particulars | I |
| of Crater Face's scars She was a blur a cartoon | J |
| melting Then when she healed her face | K |
| a million pebbles set in cement | C |
| Even Comet Boy | L |
| who got his name by being so abrasive | M |
| who made fun of everyone didn't make fun | N |
| of her She walked over the bridge | O |
| with the one other white girl who lived | C |
| in her neighborhood Smoke curled | C |
| like Slinkies from the factory stacks | P |
| above them | Q |
| I liked to imagine that Crater Face | K |
| went straight home like I did to watch Shirley Temple | R |
| on channel I liked to imagine that she slipped | C |
| into the screen bumping Shirley with her hip | S |
| so that child actress slid out of frame into the tubes | T |
| and wires that made the TV sputter when I turned it on | U |
| Sometimes when I watched I'd see Crater Face | K |
| tap dancing with tall black men whose eyes | V |
| looked shiny like the whites of hard boiled eggs | W |
| I'd try to imagine that her block was full | X |
| of friendly folk with a lighthouse or goats | Y |
| running in the street | C |
| It was my way of praying | Z |
| my way of un imagining the Drano pellets | A2 |
| that must have smacked against her | B |
| like a round of mini bullets | A2 |
| her whole face as vulnerable as a tongue | B2 |
| wrapped in sizzling pizza cheese | C2 |
| How she'd come home with homework | D2 |
| the weight of her books bending her into a wilting plant | C |
| How her father called her slut bitch big baby slob | E2 |
| The hospital where she was forced to say it was an accident | C |
| Her face palpable as something glowing in a Petri dish | F2 |
| The bandages over her eyes | V |
| In black and white | C |
| with all that make up Crater Face almost looked pretty | C |
| sure her MGM father was coming back soon from the war | G2 |
| seeing whole zoos in her thin orphanage soup | H2 |
| She looked happiest when she was filmed | C |
| from the back sprinting into the future | B |
| fading into tiny gray dots on UHF | M |
Denise Duhamel
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