Kindergarten Portrait Of My Mother At Mardi Gras Comments

Excellent work. Photographs are scary because they catch so much of the actual, though few writers ever interpret so well what appears within the frame. I also applaud your decision not to go all sentimental on us. I grow tired of writers of poems who canonize their parents so that said writers need not actually look at their parents and their lives and their remarkably ill-informed decisions to bring us into what Kurt Vonnegut has called 'this thing, whatever it is.' Parents, it would seem, are full of the same pain and terror we are, so I admire someone who faces that truth and states it plainly. Thanks.