to examine how she implanted the daughter's clinginess since her own body seizes when the child finally "leaves to go/where I am not." The form of the poem replicates the paradox of the situation. The first stanza has two end rhymes: rOll/fOld--a pattern of matching that devolves into deliberate half-matching and finally unmatching ends of lines: bEat/bEing; awAy/HAdes; waKes/blinKs.
from Mary Karr: The Washington Post: Poet's Choice
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