Her arms around me—child—
Around my head, hugging with her whole arms,
Whole arms as if I were a loved and native rock,
and my nose pressed
Hugely to the collar of her winter coat—. There
in the photograph
It is the child who is the branch
We fall from, where would be bramble,
Brush, bramble in the young Winter
With its blowing snow she must have thought
Was ours to give to her.
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