Reality intervenes in the next two stanzas. The use of ‘native’ here recalls the sound of ‘fatal’ from the previous stanza, which might suggest that our very origins are bound up with our ...

Here's a name that not many people might've seen in a while: the Nissan Stanza. Well, unless you're like me and have a passion for these old, forgotten vehicles. Even so, I've been working on and ...

By getting rid of these, her own fears are stripped away. The last line of the stanza describes the daughter’s last action of waving as she leaves. The change of stanza before the mother's ...