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Swinging from Parents

The child walks between her father and mother,

holding their hands. She makes the shape of the y

at the end of infancy, and lifts her feet

the way the y pulls up its feet, and swings

like the v in love, between an o and an e

who are strong and steady and as far as she knows

will be there to swing from forever. Sometimes

her father, using his free hand, points to something

and says its name, the way the arm of the r

points into the future at the end of father.

Or the r at the end of forever. It’s that forever

the child puts her trust in, lifting her knees,

swinging her feet out over the world.