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The L ight Gatherer

The L ight Gatherer. When you were small, your cupped palms each held a candlesworth under your skin, e nough light to begin, a nd as your grew light gathered in you, two clear raindrops in your eyes, w arm pearls , shy, in the lobes or your ears, even always

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The L ight Gatherer

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  1. The Light Gatherer

  2. When you were small, your cupped palms each held a candlesworth under your skin, enough light to begin, and as your grew light gathered in you, two clear raindrops in your eyes, warmpearls, shy, in the lobes or your ears, even always the light of a smile after your tears.

  3. Your kissed feet glowed in my one hand, or I’d enter a room to see the corner you played in lit like a stage set, the crown of your bowed head spotlit. When language came, it glittered like a river, silver, clever with fish, and you slept with the whole moon held in your arms for a night light where I kept watching.

  4. Light gatherer. You fell from a star into my lap, the soft lamp at the bedside mirrored in you, and now you shine like a snowgirl, abuttercup under a chin, the wide blue yonder You squeal at and fly in, Like a jewelled cave, turquoise and diamond and gold opening out at the end of a tunnel of years.

  5. Form and structure • Stanza’s very separated, show the different stages of her life. • Enjambment • These two things together make it seem like a child growing up- all the major points in life • All the different years added together make the whole girl • Unconditional love all the way through her life no matter what. • Shows how important the child is to the writer.

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