All Comments on 'Dowry'

sometimes life really eats / people really eat your heart out, and it shows.

Turning away from the staple sweet 'motherhood favored' public image, this poem gives a mere glimpse over the dark side of the most basic of relations. That they are never as beautiful as publicly advertised, I believe most realize, at least privately. I just wish more details could be shown about those drk areas (perhaps in 'Dowry II'?), especially on the darkest of all: that ominous repeated disapproval