Joshua Bennett — Owed to Your Father’s Gold Chain
Poetry Unbound
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The Name of a Child Is the Name of a World
i love this poem for all kinds of reasons. It's a diological poem, which is an unnecessarily formal way of saying that it's a poem about a conversation. And the conversation is what wol we call our child. There's so much in this poem about how they know each other,. like he knows pretty well that she's unlikely to like his suggestion.
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