Peep how Deer Girl opens with lyrical momentum. Short lines. Clipped syntax. & lineation/stanzation that creates a sort of gravitational downward pull.

“sterile noon” is acoustically exact w/ sibilance & long vowel, accentuated by the immediate stanza break

followed by a karate chop “a ward at two.”, which echoes the long /uː/ (noon/two), while confining a reader spatially.

interrogatives sharpen rhythm further. “What is your name? / What year is it?” (routine clinical questions, but at this stage existential)

And then the isolated “grandmother”…

sterile noon // a ward at two. Therapist says, / What is your name? / What year is it? // grandmother