Matrix: A Man's Feelings William Heyen's poem "Matrix" (184-185) is a beautiful display of how he feels for his wife. You can tell from this poem that he is sensitive to her feelings of being sick and that he would do any thing to make her feel more comfortable. He shows this is his feelings by writing about his memory when he saw a mutilated turtle when he was a young boy. In the first part of the poem, he talks about how when the turtle was younger something must have broken its shell in half because it looks as if it mended itself back together in the way it looked mutilated: " Something had chewed its back legs to the joints, / but its stumps were hard" (10-12). He asks the turtle knowing it is not going to answer him," How did you survive" (13) He picks up the turtle to comfort it, but the turtle goes back into its shell to hide from him. He uses his experiences with the....

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