Elizabeth Jennings Quote

Do they know they're old,
These two who are my father and my mother
Whose fire from which I came, has now grown cold?


'One Flesh' in Collected Poems (1967)


Do they know they're old, These two who are my father and my mother Whose fire from which I came, has now grown cold?

Do they know they're old, These two who are my father and my mother Whose fire from which I came, has now grown cold?

Do they know they're old, These two who are my father and my mother Whose fire from which I came, has now grown cold?

Do they know they're old, These two who are my father and my mother Whose fire from which I came, has now grown cold?