The poetic techniques that are illustrated in the opening lines of this poem are personification and enjambment.
Personification is when inanimate objects have human qualities, such as <em>and my skin has betrayed me.
</em>Enjambment is when the though found in one line is transferred into the following one, such as in <em>still sucks his thumb/in secret.</em>
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