What I would take back.

Abstract

In this poem, the author describes when she was nine and in a hospital bed, her leg in a vise of needle teeth. After the pain, a family member returns with her father. The author describes the fog of forgetting a broken vow of the family member. She then describes her daughter injuring her toenail, which required bandages. The daughter asks if the wound will hurt, and the author says yes, remembering her own experience in the hospital bed as a nine-year-old. The daughter pleads with her mother to stay, and the mother reels her back to her hospital bed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).