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Annotated by:
- Coulehan, Jack
- Date of entry: Mar-05-2002
Summary
A short poem in which the speaker enters the X-ray room, braces herself against the cold, lies "suspended in icy silence." She looks at herself from a distance, feeling free, "Even though I'm not, now / Or ever . . . . " She feels the "metal teeth of death bite" but they reject her "One more time" and she returns to the everyday reality of being a sick person lying in a cold X-ray room.
Primary Source
Crossing the Same River
Publisher
Univ. of Massachusetts Press
Place Published
Amherst, Mass.
Edition
1980