
Adrienne Su Reads Maxine Kumin
The New Yorker: Poetry
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The Strangeness of Family
This is a poem I think about intimacy and the intimacy of family And how connected one is. But at the same time, it's a really strange thing to make a life. The kids are disguised and there's guys as these sort of things that are doctors and lawyers. At the end she almost named it when she says I hold the rope As you slide from danger, it's tricky in high winds and drifting snow.
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