In "Precision", by Laurie Duesing, she puts into words a timeline of a horrific event at a race track for a day which seemed normal and ideal. Her descriptions of Brad Horrell's tragic crash paint a mental image that is reminiscent of a "Twilight Zone" episode. She describes these events calmly and bluntly. She uses imagery, tone, and metaphors to graphically show how in a matter of seconds a life can change forever and there is nothing perfect about death.
             On the first line of the poem, the speaker's tone seems to be amazement as the rider, Brad Horrell, "... [flies] in [a] perfect arc..." (1). The awe is then shattered when she sees that he is thrown from his bike which then breaks "...the perfect formation of [his women]..." (3), the mood at that moment becomes somber, which stays that way to the hospital, when he is pronounced dead. Her tone stays neutral throughout the poem. Perhaps she should have expressed more of her feelings as she was sprinting toward Horrell. Was she praying or was she too stunned to think. May be she was just instinctively reacting to the scene.
             Duesing successfully uses imagery to show what she saw when the disaster happened. The speaker describes the scene as Horrell flies into the air, but then something horribly goes wrong, and as he crashes to the earth, she starts running from the railing to his side. However she did not paint any more detail image such as the roar of the motorcycle, the rider losing control of his bike and the way he hit the ground.
             The image of a hand full of people, paramedics, supervisors and friends sprinting to see if the rider is okay seems normal. For the speaker in lines 6 through 7, it shows how "... the stop watch [around her neck]...was suspended between gravity and momentum...", giving the illusion of the time slowing down for her and stopping for the rider. In the second section, the spea...