Author Statement: “My poem is inspired by Plath's Esther Greenwood, a life-changing character I met in college when reading The Bell Jar for the first time. The most electric quotation from her was and still is when she described herself as feeling, "very still and very empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo." My first fourteen years were mostly hullabaloo, which is why I chose the strict, formal sonnet form -- both for its stillness and its ability to order that which is chaotic.”