Catrin

• "I can remember you, child /As I stood in a hot, white /Room at the window watching"
• "our first/ Fierce confrontation, the tight /Red rope of love which we both/ Fought over"
• "our struggle to become/ separate. We want, we shouted, /to be two, to be ourselves"
• "as you stand there/ with your straight, strong, /long, brown hair and your rosy, /defiant glare"
• "from the heart's pool that old rope/ tightening about my life [...] as you ask may you skate /in the dark, for one more hour"
• • Mother of 3 = experience with motherhood
  • She writes observations of nature + people
  • Wrote this as response to "Why did my beautiful baby have to become a teenager?"
  • Reflects on contemporary ideas of parents + children --> children's rebellious nature & desire for freedom
  • Audience can relate to tension in familial relationships