Skin By Linda Hogan Summary

16. Linda Hogan utilizes a whimsical, yet humble tone when she observes the creature blossoming under the soil. She “wonders how a cut blade of grass knows how to turn sharp again at the end” conveying her curiosity similar to a child’s. To wonder is to observe and and question, just like a child. By confessing that she is “not aware yet of what [she] will become” reveals the uncertainty of the future, and compares herself to the unexposed, “blind” creature in the ground. Hogan is no better than the underside of an unturned stone, her mind is a blank slate ready to absorb the world around her.

10. Skin is something many living things shed, and it is Hogan’s way of symbolizing maturity. However, instead of shedding out of old skin, one “struggles