Drifting By liana lawler 2010 pg1
Day 1
Saddened.
But happy.
Anticipation high.
Moving.
Waving good-bye.
Exploration.
A floating mansion.
Tired.
Drifting…
Dreaming.
Waves crashing.
Cold, salty water.
Numb.
Awake.
Panting.
Hand over heart.
Nightmare.
Day 2
Almost happy.
Pondering…
Nightmare.
Why?
. . .
Rich accommodations.
Happy.
Delighted. Pg2
But…
Still pondering.
But nightmare almost gone.
…
Again.
Tired.
Drifting…
Dreaming.
Nightmare.
Gasping.
Wide-eyed.
Scared.
Day 3
Disturbed.
Tell of nightmare.
Laughed at.
Comforted.
Not believed.
. . .
Afraid.
To sleep?
No, to dream.
But tired.
Drifting…
Dreaming.
Dancing.
Floor tilting.
Screaming.
Shocked. Pg3
Waves crashing.
Cold, salty water.
Numb.
Ship.
Tilted.
Sinking.
Awake.
Screaming.
Footsteps.
Blanket.
On shoulders.
Sobbing.
Day 4
Head high.
Shunned.
Disbelieved.
Scared.
Requesting captain.
Tell.
Resounding hilarity.
Catches eye.
Laughter falters.
Dismissed.
. . .
Unhappy.
Sleep not welcome.
But tired.
So tired.
Drifting… pg4
Dreaming.
No nightmare.
Awake almost instantly.
Music.
Dancing.
De ja' vu.
Horror.
Floor tilting.
Shocked.
Not dreaming!
Waves crashing.
Cold, salty water.
Clinging to wood.
Numb.
Ship.
Tilted.
Sinking.
Lifeboat.
In sight.
Sees.
Wide eyes.
Laughter gone.
Now?
Yes.
Now they believe.
5 days later pg5
Stares.
Asked.
Ignore.
2250 on ship.
Lifeboat capacity750.
1500.
Left.
Drifting…
Whose point of view is Drifting from? Drifting is a poem from the point of view of a second-class young woman who is running away from her family's expectations. The poem doesn't hint to this, but I wrote the poem with this in my mind.
What those expectations are isn't clear to me.
What is Drifting about?
Drifting is a poem about a woman who has physic dreams that slowly grow clearer to show her that the ship will sink.
She is believed too late.
Why did you write Drifting?
I actually wrote drifting for a writing contest at the local public library. I was writing a different story-not a poem-but I lost the thread of the story, I had already entered the contest, and I had just read a book on the Titanic, so I just started… writing.
When and where did you write Drifting?
I was eleven in the summer of 2010. Drifting was actually written forty minutes before I was supposed to go to the airport and take a plane home to Michigan for a month. I was hand copying the final draft as the car was being loaded. I was at home in Mount Vernon, WA.