I chose this poem to go with this section from Nine Gates about indirection because of everything the poem did not explain. There is a lot of very explicit detail in this poem that both tells us a lot about its subject but also leaves a lot of questions unanswered. There seems to be some sort of conflict between the speaker and the other person in the poem but it is never really explained outside of the information given in the title, which is that the poem is about Hansel and Gretel once the have grown older.