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A child draws the outline of a body.

She draws what she can, but it is white all through,

she cannot fill in what she knows is there.

Within the unsupported line, she knows

that life is missing; she has cut

one background from another. Like a child,

she turns to her mother.

 

And you draw the heart

against the emptiness she has created.

Written by
Louise Glück
1943 - / Female / American
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