Mother, any distance

• a parent and child relationship. son has mixed feelings. mother supporting child as he moves into his own house, son becomes independent whilst maintaining a good bond
• title is a direct address
• first two paragraphs are quatrains, till the third which merges into one
• tone is ambiguous but view of love is evident
• "the line still feeding out, unreeling years between us"metaphor, turned into a tape measure could relate to umbilical chord
• "anchor'' ''stay'' ''kite'' ''go'' ambiguous, oxymmoron. symbolism in go
• "spacewalk through the empty bedrooms'' metaphor in ''spacewalk'' its unreal
• ''last 100th of an inch...'' ellipsis, shows the effect between him and his mother. the last part he can go to