How does the author structure the novel, Ain’t Burned All the Bright?

The narrative is a mix of poetry and illustration broken into three sections, denoted as "breaths", and seemingly spanning the course of a single day. Each section includes a single sentence that ends before the repeating imagery of a boy breathing in a yellow flower and blowing out a birthday candle accompanied by the text "in through the nose out through the mouth". The text is not distributed uniformly across the pages, appearing in different positions and containing blank pages as well. Illustrations often also span both pages and must be examined as a work of art together rather than two separate images.