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Joshua Bennett — Owed to Your Father’s Gold Chain

Poetry Unbound

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Is This a Great Poem?

This poem is talking about what it means to behold somebody you love. There are really gorgeous similes in this poem, your face like some novice air traffic controller and then your hand unfastens like a memory. And these similes work so brilliantly. Is a delicious play of opposition in this couple, and equality and shared energy.

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