Poetry
On Paper (Jacqueline Amanda Woodson)
2020
On Paper
by Jacqueline Amanda Woodson
The first time I write my full name
Jacqueline Amanda Woodson
without anybody's help
on a clean white page in my composition notebook
I know
if I wanted to
I could write anything.
Letters becoming words, words gathering meaning
becoming
thoughts outside my head.
Becoming sentences
written by
Jacqueline Amanda Woodson.