All Comments on 'Visiting Hours at Sunny View'

This hits hard! Strong emotion! Very good. I especially liked "Soccer Mom and Listen Up Beth". A good poem!

There's a recurrent sad note to your work at the moment. Are you okay?

but the images in this poem seem a bit confused, or at least not as coherent as they ought to be. The general tenor of the poem, with perhaps the exception of the ending, seems straightforward enough, but the referents are somewhat confused, at least to Poet Guy. The little girl with the Cheerios, though a vivid image, is confusing--not sure why she is startled or whatever caused her to spill her cereal.

The general impression of the poem is strong--the casual, off-hand attitude of family visiting old people in a retirement facillity--but the details, though strong in themselves, get confusing as to specifics.

Anyway, Poet Guy's impression. Very interesting effort, though, as always.