Mother Any Distance

• Greater than a single span


  requires a second pair of hands
• you and me at the

  zero end
• anchor


  kite
• I space walk


  through the empty bedrooms
• youre fingertips still pinch

  the last one hundredth of an inch
• an endless sky


  to fall or fly
• Poet


  Simon Armitage
• When was it written

  1993
• Structure


  The sonnet-like structure allows the poet to deal with two separate thoughts: the first eight lines describing the speaker and his mother still connected by the literal tape measure and the last seven lines describing the speaker moving away from his mother
• Rhyme


  a very loose rhyming scheme, which is mainly in the form of half-rhyme