Her

The speaker revisits an earlier belief that the world belonged to him, remembers stuttering and scars, and ends with a woman liking him against the odds.

The speaker mixes lost confidence with a small claim of acceptance. The reference to America belongs to his account of aspiration; the page does not establish the woman's identity or an event outside the poem.

'Her' recalls a time 'whem I thought / I knew the world / The world belonged to me', then 'Stuttering, you kbow, scarred / I did not touch the sky,,', and ends 'It is Americam, that is what we do / Against all odds / A women likes me'.

The poem measures early confidence against a later, scarred self, and the final surprise is small and personal: a woman likes the speaker. The national phrase dignifies that surprise with some irony. Whem, kbow, Americam, the doubled comma and A women are kept as typed; the overstruck letter in kbow and the overwritten letters in Americam remain provisional readings. The poem does not identify the woman.