Line' Um Up

"Crow is Walking"
Crow is walking
to see things at ground level,
the ground as new under his feet
as the air is old under his wings.
He laves the dead rabbit waiting -- it's a given,
it'll always be there -- and walks down the dirt road,
admires the pebbles,
how they sparkle in the sun;
checks out his reflection in a puddle full of sky
which reminds him of where he's supposed to be,
but he's beginning to like the way the muscles move in his legs
and the way his wings feel so comfortable folded back and resting.
He thinks he might be beautiful,
the sun lighting his back with purple and green.
Faint voices from somewhere far ahead roll
like dust down the road towards him.
He hurries a little.
His tongue moves in his mouth;
legends of language move in his mind.
His beak opens.
He tries
a word.
-- Grace Butcherfrom Poetry , 2000.
Basically, the majority of the poem describes the crow's actions as well as his thoughts. When one has thoughts or actions, one does them one at a time. With this idea of doing things one at a time, I seperated each line with one action or thought at a time. This allows each action or idea to be significant to lead up to the crow "speaking his first word", emphasizing the journey which the crow embarks to "speak".