A1. "if we launched our demands into the sky, made ourselves so big people could point to us with the arrows they make in their minds," #aplitchat

Q2. Q2. Which part of this poem will students find difficult? #aplitchat

A2. I anticipate my students struggling with the second stanza, "I am a hearth of spiders these days: a nest of trying." #aplitchat

Q3. There is a lot that is figurative in the poem. Students may want to jump there initially, missing the literal. Literally, what is our speaker doing? #aplitchat

A3. I can't tell if it is two lovers or neighbors rolling out garbage cans and taking notice of the celestial sky. #aplitchat

Q4. What has provoked the speaker into utterance? #aplitchat

A4. I see a relationship between the bigger picture --the constellations -- and her immediate impact -- her trash. She questions the impact she has on the grand scale. #aplitchat

Q5. What does the speaker recognize and realize about stars? #aplitchat

A5: The speaker realizes that in the darkness starlight reaches us and it has a power to illuminate from a distance long after it is gone. #aplitchat

Q6. How is this moment “almost romantic” for the speaker (stanza 4)? #aplitchat

A6. There is the beauty of the cosmos, then there is TRASH. #aplitchat

Q7. What is implied in the line “to lean into the spotlight of streetlight with you,”? #aplitchat

A7. There is this sense that they need to step out of their relative darkness and onto a bigger stage with a brighter spotlight. #aplitchat

Q8. Why does the speaker choose to end the poem with a series of rhetorical questions? #aplitchat

A8. The questions aren't so much asking as they are calling us to action. #aplitchat

Thank you everyone for a wonderful evening. #aplitchat will return Sunday October 6th.

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