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Annotated by:
- Wear, Delese
- Date of entry: May-15-2002
Summary
The poem depicts the vulnerability a woman may feel during this procedure, one that feels anything but routine. Even though the mammogram turns out predictably normal, the patient knows that she is changed. She has seen the fragile faults deep in her body, and she knows that no one, not even her doctor with his reassuring diagnosis, can "give innocence back."
Primary Source
A Fraction of Darkness
Publisher
W. W. Norton
Place Published
New York
Edition
1985