The first time I write my full name Jacqueline Amanda Woodson without anybody's help one a clean white page in my composition notebook, I know if I wanted to I could write anything. Letters becoming words, words gathering meaning, becoming thoughts outside my head becoming sentences written by Jacqueline Amanda Woodson Until this point in the book, the narrator expresses her frustration with her inability to write due to her age. This poem is the first instance in which she feels a sense of pride and a sense of hope for her future in writing. She can finally write without the help of her sister (referred to in another poem), and she is now physically able to do what she loves. Writing, for the narrator, is power and freedom and creativity. She can secure all of the stories floating through her brain to a page.
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