Great Regulars: Acorns and wind are familiar images

to Midwestern readers, and here these natural forces suggest wholeness. The last two lines are the sonnet's couplet, with the surprising final chord--acceptance of "luck." The mother empowers her orphaned (or fatherless) daughter by framing her within a larger cosmos.

Orphans

from Denise Low: Ad Astra Poetry Project: Gloria Vando (1936 - )

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