Question

What word in stanza 3 is a symbol and what does it represent?

Indian Boy Love Song (#2)


I never spoke
the language
of the old woman

visiting my mother
in winters so cold
they could freeze
the tongue whole.

I never held my head
to their thin chests
believing in the heart.

Indian women, forgive me.
I grew up distant
and always afraid

Answer 1

Ima say believing because after that it says in the heart so it’s saying he believes in them.