reinforced by the complex rhyme of "mending kit"/"nothing in it", was prompted by her [Lorine Niedecker's] recognition that the poem's "you"--her then lover Harold Hein--was willing enough to "carry/[her] fishpole", but not, in the end, to propose marriage. Later, she was to tell a friend who asked why she had married the alcoholic and uneducated Millen, "He's the only man who ever told me he loved me".In her poems, the candour of such remarks was transmuted into the most subtle obliquity.
from The Times Literary Supplement: Spare, enigmatic Lorine Niedecker
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