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As the sections grow longer, the poems become more complex and the shadow of destruction lengthens. By section J, the poet’s incantation takes a devastating turn: . This is the poem's chilling pivot point. From this moment, the idyllic natural panorama is forever haunted by the threat of nuclear annihilation. The poet continues to catalogue, but the list now includes hydrogen bombs and the even more insidious cobalt bombs . The poem becomes an act of defiance, a determination to cherish life in the face of its possible end.

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Notice where the Fibonacci sequence forces a section to become longer. Observe how Christensen fills that extra space—does she introduce more beauty, or does the anxiety of destruction begin to take over? As the sections grow longer, the poems become