Line 'Em Up

"Crow is Walking"

Crow is walking to see things at ground level,
the ground as new under his feet
as the air is old under his wings.
He laves the dead rabbit waiting -- it's a given,
it'll always be there -- and walks down the dirt road,
admires the pebbles, how they sparkle in the sun;
checks out his reflection in a puddle full of sky
which reminds him of where he's supposed to be,
but he's beginning to like the way the muscles move in his legs
and the way his wings feel so comfortable folded back and resting.
He thinks he might be beautiful, the sun lighting his back with purple and green.
Faint voices from somewhere far ahead
roll like dust down the road towards him.
He hurries a little. His tongue moves in his mouth;
legends of language move in his mind.
His beak opens.
He tries a word.

-- Grace Butcher

I broke up this poem in the way that i did because this is how it makes the most sense to me. I feel like a line break usually occurs when a comma, period, or semicolon is put in. This is to show a break in the sentence or to switch topics which made sense to me to have a new line. But not always is it neccesary for a period to cause a new line when the two sentences are closely related in topic and content.