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There is often an anchoring of your poems to your place of birth and home, like this poem seems to do. But it doesn't impede on the poem's reaching for something transcendent that anyone can see from anywhere and call it "home". In fact, the anchoring is what it needs to transport the reader to a universal experience we each have in our own places where we are anchored.
When I first read this poem I thought it sounded oddly exotic to me, an American, who did not recognize myself in it and didn't find a connection to my own life. But now that I've read it a few times over the past week or so I've come to find it causes me to reflect on those primal memories I have of growing up in New Jersey. Thanks for rousing them.
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