"There are years that ask questions and years that answer." (21)
"Long before the year was up [...]" (26)
"On the train the next day, Joe didn't make many speeches with rhymes to her" (34)
2.) Porches
"It was the time for sitting on porches beside the road."(1)
"They sat on the boarding house porch and saw the sun plunge into the same crack in the earth from which the nigh emerged" (33)
3.) Bloom/Parts of a flower (Metaphors for stages of maturity and emotional development)
"From barren brown stems to glistening leaf-buds; from the leaf-buds to snowy virginity of bloom." (10)
"She had glossy leaves and bursting buds and she wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her." (11)
"She wasn't petal-open anymore with him. She was twenty-four and seven years married when she knew." (71)
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