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Tracy K. Smith — Song

Poetry Unbound

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Love Isn't a Verb

In irish, love isn't a verb. And so one of the ways that you can say i love you in irish is mohol ho. You are my music. I feel like the poet in this poem, tracy k smith, is describing the music between two people,. In fact, it deepens their differences. It deepens the fact that it's one person speaking another, and then them speaking back. One person sleeping, the other person watching the other sleeping. A friend of mine, when she gave birth, had her child put on her breast, and she heard herself say to her child, hello, stranger. She felt guilty until she realized we're

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