Janurary Gill O Neil's Early Memory

The poem called “Early Memory” by Janurary Gill O’Neil talks about a memory moment that is so specific to her that she needs to write it in a poem. The poem is about a person and they start out the story but saying how she remembers throwing sand into a boys eyes in day care. After that she goes onto saying how there must have been so much rage in her to give so much pain to another person. She goes onto saying how she saw a man pull a gold chain off of a womens neck on the street one afternoon. This memory moment is important because that anger that was in her when she was a child she was relating to the criminal in the end of her story not the victim. She said that all of her fire from her childhood was clenched deep in her pockets. The line