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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HYBRIDS OF WAR: A MORALITY POEM: 2. CAMBODIA, by KAREN SWENSON Poet's Biography First Line: Before the rats came Last Line: For a face to match her mirrors'. Subject(s): Abandonment; Cambodia; Children; Desertion; Childhood | |||
Before the rats came, following the wavering fishline of her newborn cry, they found her among pearly slime of gutted mussel shells, fish rot, jackfruit rind, and scabbed plastic in the harbor dump. Sixteen and solemn, walled in her street stand's ink perfume by the gloss of fashionable faces, as well as Time and Fortune, she waits behind the gray rain-drape of the monsoon for a face to match her mirrors'. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE THREE CHILDREN by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN CHILDREN SELECTING BOOKS IN A LIBRARY by RANDALL JARRELL COME TO THE STONE ... by RANDALL JARRELL THE LOST WORLD by RANDALL JARRELL A SICK CHILD by RANDALL JARRELL CONTINENT'S END by ROBINSON JEFFERS ON THE DEATH OF FRIENDS IN CHILDHOOD by DONALD JUSTICE |
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