Anatomy of the Universe

 By Chloe Leach, Grade 11, West Valley High School, Fairbanks, AK
This poem won the 2010 Black Dog Tall Ships Merlyn's Pen Writing Contest, earning its author a full scholarship to attend the Black Dog Tall Ships Kids Cruise "Writer's Week," July 11-17, 2010.
Genre  Poem   Topic  Nature, Spiritual Experience, Earth, Personification

"I want to split open the sky / And gaze upon the other side / To see how the universe looks / When her skin is peeled away . . .

ID 45264   Published in Merlyn's Pen
Reading Level 9-12   Selected as an Editor's Choice

A good writing model for:

Writing about Nature

Published in these textbooks/anthologies:

New Library of Young Adult Writing, at www.merlynspen.org

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