(Asked of four student poets at the Illinois
Schools for the Deaf and Visually Impaired)	

Fire: because it is quick, and can destroy.

Music: place where anger has its place.

Romantic Love—the cold or stupid ask why.

Sign: that it is a language, full of grace,


That it is visible, invisible, dark and clear,

That it is loud and noiseless and is contained 

Inside a body and explodes in air

Out of a body to conquer from the mind.