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A Single Letter [1]

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11.2.21

“I love the I, / frail between its flitches, its hard ground / and hard sky, it soars between them / like the soul that rushes, back and forth, / between the mother and father.” In this line from her iconic poem “Take the I Out [3],” Sharon Olds describes both the physical shape of the letter and how it represents the self. This week write an ode to a letter of the alphabet. Whether it be the letter I, or a different one, how far can you go in describing this letter and locating the many ways it holds place in your life?


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/a_single_letter [2] https://www.pw.org/genre/poetry [3] https://poets.org/poem/take-i-out