MY MOTHER AT SIXTY-SIX

Class 12 Art English Poetry Summary

MY MOTHER AT SIXTY-SIX

~Summary~

-by Kamala Das

FOR ANNE GREGORY

“Driving from my parent’s

home to Cochin last Friday

morning, I saw my mother, beside me,

doze, open mouthed, her face ashen like that of a corpse”

MY MOTHER AT SIXTY-SIX

“And realized with pain that she was as

old as she looked but soon put that thought away

and looked out at young Trees sprinting,

the merry children spilling out of their homes”

MY MOTHER AT SIXTY-SIX

“But after the airport’s

security check, standing a few yards

away, I looked again at her, wan, pale

as a late winter’s moon”

MY MOTHER AT SIXTY-SIX

“And felt that old

familiar ache, my childhood’s fear,

but all I said was, see you soon, Amma,

all I did was smile and smile and smile …”

MY MOTHER AT SIXTY-SIX

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