The Shape of a Whale

I'm really struck too by some of the shape poems that are in the book, of one's like shaped almost like an earn um. How did you decide on doing that? I mean, it, you know, for me, poems don't decide, or i don't decision, the poems decide. Think people conceive of me as a spoken word poet, which i'm so grateful for. But as someone with the speech in patient, my first kind of interactions with poetry was actually on the page. That was where i felt most free to express myself.