Classic and Contemporary Poetry

THE PENNACESSE LEPER COLONY FOR WOMEN, CAPE COD: 1922, by NORMAN DUBIE            Poem Explanation         Poet's Biography
First Line: The island, you mustn't say, had only rocks and scrub pine
Last Line: Most everything for you. And I'll be gone.
Subject(s): Absence; Cape Cod; Fathers & Daughters; History; Leprosy; Separation; Isolation; Historians; Lepers