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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOVE 10, by RACHEL HADAS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: I mother you you father me vice versa
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love
First Line: I mother you you father me vice versa
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love
I mother you you father me vice versa:
take the exhausted person off, discard
the mom and dadness of who's child, whose child
means less than the warm back we each of us
lie against, the body where we anchor
ourself, the imprint deep as blood. Perpetual
stoas, arcades, and alleys
loom and dwindle, mark our mutual
distance, proceeding down the avenue
clutching a clue, love's puzzle
not yet, not ever done.
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