Great Regulars: We see this again in the poem

"Walking at Night", in which the central character is defined, more than anything else, by her part in such a process:

Now that she is old,
the young men don't approach her
so the nights are free,
the streets that were so dangerous
have become as safe as the meadow.

Even the fragility of her body is highlighted to serve a general truth--"When you look at a body you see a history./Once that body isn't seen anymore,/the story it tried to tell gets lost".

from Charles Bainbridge: The Guardian: A Village Life by Louise Glück

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