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IT IS by DAVID IGNATOW

Poet Analysis

First Line: IT IS HEART-RENDING TO KNOW A KISS
Last Line: IN EACH OTHER'S SIGHT AND TOUCH
Subject(s): LIFE;
From my car I felt I was a vessel
of the waters. I longed to be filled,
my belly upturned,
my head pillowed upon the tide:
dead and drowned. And I would reply,
but not without being present,
for I would not be lying still
upon its bosom were I not welcome.
And the car took me to my Sunday relatives.



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