≡ Memory Chain + Where I'm From = Hypertext Poem ≡

Write a poem like this one by George Ella Lyon in United States of Poetry, a book and a video published by Harry N. Abrams

1. "Where I'm From"
   
   
2. I am from clothespins,
3. from Clorox and carbon-tetrachloride.
4. I am from the dirt under the back porch.
5. (Black, glistening
6. it tasted like beets.)
7. I am from the forsythia bush,
8. the Dutch elm
9. whose long gone limbs I remember
10. as if they were my own.
11. I am from fudge and eyeglasses,
12. from Imogene and Alafair.
13. I'm from the know-it-alls
14. and the pass-it-ons,
15. from perk up and pipe down.
16. I'm from He restoreth my soul
17. with cottonball lamb
18. and ten verses I can say myself.
19. I'm from Artemus and Billie's Branch,
20. fried corn and strong coffee.
21. From the finger my grandfather lost
22. to the auger
23. the eye my father shut to keep his sight.
24. Under my bed was a dress box
25. spilling old pictures.
26. a sift of lost faces
27. to drift beneath my dreams.
28. I am from those moments --
29. snapped before I budded --
30. leaf-fall from the family tree.

Click here go to an article by Linda Christensen. She describes a lesson similar to the one presented below. She also explains why we ask students to read and write poetry like this.