I was walking along the sidewalk late one afternoon, and I noticed a long shadow stretching across the sidewalk that was cast from a very small pebble. I started to think of the pebble as an old hurt in the heart and how something relatively small can loom large. I decided to write a poem in a meter that feels unbalanced. I chose anapestic trimeter, a meter with three beats: duh-duh-DUH, and three feet per line.