One poem in "The Summer of Black Widows that particularly caught my attention was Fire as a Verb and Noun. To begin with, the format in itself shows a more complex form for the essay. The sections do not seem to be separated into any sort of exact form or pattern, and the passages are split into different sections ar the poem progresses. Personally, I felt that this added more meaning and definitely dramatized the poem a great deal more, because of the frequent pauses that make the reader notice each section more.

I thought it was especially interesting how he used the reoccurring theme of fire in the poem, and the way he used it to represent the death of his sister and brother-in-law. Because it was the cause of death for the both of them, it was interesting how he chose to use a metaphor that direct in the poem. It almost seemed as a way, for him, as the poem progressed, to come to terms with the reality of the deaths, and to directly deal with his grief towards the situation. Ever passage of the poem contained some form of relative wording about fire, and showed how the different effects in a sense helped him to come to terms with the death.