In the Mary Oliver poem "Singapore", the author writes a poem about a poor woman whom she saw washing an ashtray in the toilet while in an airport in Singapore. Oliver finds this to be a beautiful scene in "nature." She talks about how some people expect all poems to be about nature and obvious happiness. However, she shows that with imagery they can be found in the least likely of places. In this poem, the author uses a collaboration of nature imagery to compare what she physically sees on the woman and the work she is doing to nature and happiness. The structure of Oliver's poem is setup to go back and forth between what is really happening and what is being made up in her imagination. In Oliver's "Singapore," she shows how the women she sees in the airport cleaning an ashtray in the toilet can be related to nature. At the first glance of the women, the author is disgusted as she states in the poem, "Disgust argued in my stomach and I felt, in my pocket, for my ticket . She is not happy about the vision she sees and like the average person, she looks at the woman's appearance and immediately judges her. On one hand, the poet may feel a little lucky for herself. Since she has a ticket in her pocket, she can get away from this situation whenever she wants. However, on the other hand, the poet somehow feels sorry about the woman because she believes that, for all human beings, restrooms would by no means be a pleasant place to work. According to Douglas Burton-Christie, "Nature does not need people in order to be nature" (Burton-Christie 81). Oliver shows the reader that nature is an imaginary, where you can see happy thing of life. In a poem you are supposedly in a happy place and she wants to put that woman there, "a person wants to stand in a happy place, in a poem. Moreover, Oliver shows how with a little imagination people can find happiness in anything or anyplace. It is believed that in poems, people should always be in a