Denise Duhamel: My Mother Dreams: If Her Husband Dies, Who Will Cut The Lawn?

[sweetheart1410]

Found a very interesting poem by Denise Duhamel
What do you think about it?
What do you think it is about?

I can't get it out of my mind since I first read it..
it is both fascinating and confusing

For Copyright reasons:
//capa.conncoll.edu/duhamel.smile.html#21
here you can find the whole poem..


but she is silent, knows this is false comfort.
I'm too far. But the phones will always work,
I assure her, I am only a train ride away.
My own dreams are full of AIDS --
My friends topple, slowly, in pain.
And my mother and father, in the ones

This is probably the most important stanza..