Excerpt from wichita mourning
david matherne

sally richards—broken and mourning—
watched while her father left, 10
as painters brought in their cans
for the first time.

stained-glass windows—buckled and broken—
surveyed commotion’s cause
as commerce won in the end 15
yet one more time.

this text might be identified as a memoir if
a) it employed the multi-level usage of a literary symbol.
b) it told one person's emotional memory of a church's destruction.
c) it had more extensive use of rhyme, imagery, and figurative language.
d) it had more regular stanzas and used the same line lengths throughout.