Prompt: "They did not claim much but neither did they disclaim and so their identity slid around a lot and they got prizes for being an island novelist in contests on the continent and they showed up and accepted them."
The Transformation p. 101.
Poem: Sliding Identity
They in the Transformation
not a couple, yet monogamous,
or trigamous?
Not of the island, but on it.
In it they are confused.
Where does anything belong?
They feel a need to categorize things.
And people, and works, and feelings, and histories.
Or they fight the categories.
They are not two, but three.
They are confusing.
What is it that they want?
To comprehend, to understand, to inform to...
Transform?
They in the Transformation are sliding back and forth.
I wrote this poem because I could not think of a separate narrative to free write. Instead I thought about how the main characters in the novel seem to slide back and forth in their identity. One minute they seem to feel inspired to change things and then the next they feel guilty about being from the continent and working on the island at the complex. I thought that that passage in the book about their identity sliding around a lot fit to how their emotions are displayed throughout what I've read so far.
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