http://www.rattle.com/poetry/2008/06/gloves-by-jose-angel-araguz/ Poetry for Everyone. Tue, 22 May 2012 20:06:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.rattle.com/poetry/2008/06/gloves-by-jose-angel-araguz/#comment-803 Gillian in Portland Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:32:53 +0000 http://www.rattle.com/blog/?p=19#comment-803 I can feel the ache in these lines, so clear is the picture of the boy with one glove -- maybe a whole backpack pocket lined with single mitts - holding tightly to his story because it's the only thing he's been given and he had to give it to himself. The last stanza conveys his longing for that intangible hug with painful eloquence! I can feel the ache in these lines, so clear is the picture of the boy with one glove — maybe a whole backpack pocket lined with single mitts – holding tightly to his story because it’s the only thing he’s been given and he had to give it to himself. The last stanza conveys his longing for that intangible hug with painful eloquence!

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