Nola Singh

English

12 June, 06:27

Breaks from the blue-black

skin of the water, dragging her shell

with its mossy scutes

across the shallows and through the rushes

and over the mudflats, to the uprise,

to the yellow sand,

to dig with her ungainly feet

a nest, and hunker there spewing

her white eggs down

into the darkness, and you think

-"The Turtle,"

Mary Oliver

Repetition is an important element to include in your free verse poem. Locate which word is repeated in three continuous phrases to show the slow, continued movement of the turtle in one direction.

A. laying

B. her

C. to

D. across