The structure of Chris Martins poems is very different from the poetry I’m used to reading, with longer lines and a more clear idea and direction. The thoughts and topics he brings up in his poems switch without any clear sectioning or transitions and sound like little bursts of different ideas. However, different is good. Martin provides a new, more modern take on poetry without the confinements of structure and rhyme schemes. I noticed that his ideas and words are more images and actions that occur on a regular basis than complex poetic devices and lengthy imagery with deeper meanings that you have to analyze and hunt to find. The poems structure is short and the three to five word lines naturally cause the reader to read it choppy and broken up. When I did so with the first few poems, they were confusing and I couldn’t find the meaning or follow the sentences. But when I went back through and read them straight through, disregarding the line breaks, I could follow what he was trying to say. While it is still difficult to understand truly what he’s trying to say without thorough analyzing, in the poem “Time” he continuously comes back to the idea of hands, fingers, and the simple act and memory of holding hands with someone and what it meant. In the poems I read, he focuses on one main act or idea, incorporating different ideas and images around that topic. Martin brings up simple, everyday acts, helping to illustrate that the little things can be just as meaningful as big, important events and ideas that many poets stick to.