Dynamic Word: Concrete Poem

So for the first part of Dynamic Word we have to create a piece of concrete poetry based on the poems of Sam Drew. I got given:-

First Flight

I was the first to fly: a theoretical creature.
Ugly too, by all accounts. My mother
had one wing: a veined fan on her back
to trap or release the rays of the sun

to heat or cool her blood. I, her first born
had two wings. My brothers called me
‘mutant’ and ‘freak’, until one day
I waved my wings, and watched them

shrink below, their mouths open
as I passed tall grass, branches, leaves
cleared the summit of trees, and entered
heaven alone. A billion years before

the Wright brothers, I was up there.
Before nightingales, balloons, kites
before holidays in sunny Spain, before
satellites, before unmanned military drones

I flew without knowing the things I’d inspired.
They peeled from me like childhood clothes
and fell to the Earth. I never went home.


We also got a chance to hear what Sam Drew thought about the poem and to give ideas about what/ how the poem could go; things to enhance/that will enhance the poem's meaning or message. He spoke about his inspiration for the poem based on movement and energy, looking specifically at a prehistoric creature called odonata. Basically in evolution this creature used it 'mutated' gills to fly, thus becoming the first thing to ever fly (the closest thing to it now living is a dragonfly.)
He said how he was interested and wanted to create a poem expressing the feeling of what it would be like to be the first to do anything; something that had never been done before.

He also stated that throughout the poem the use of 'i' and 'o' sounds were made prominent; meant to be read as prominent sounds, therefore should stand out, or be a point of focus for the poem.
He mentioned that the poems are broken into stanzas so the reader can 'pause and assimilate an image of what the words are saying.' - How can I integrate this idea? Maybe through the use of fading in and out, blank screen for a few seconds etc.
He said that he used a lot of poetry techniques in order to get across the idea of confusion and excitement. One way was through syllables, which emphasizes movement; the second part of the poem having the most 'movement' when the creature starts to fly. He said this was done, along with rhyme, to achieve the idea of moving faster, the words 'more faster' so the idea/image is quick, and the pace speeds up, making the reader feel some of that excitement etc.
He also said how people, the human race, always turn a positive into a negative, or usually. This tiny creature flies and from that we evolve to build planes that drop bombs, destroying things.

I have a few initial ideas...