New semester Poetry

The Poem I'm doing this week is "Country Mouth Cotton." It's a pretty straight poem, well you have to read into it a little. It's about where she used to live and how she has memories there. she doesn't have very many positive things to say about it either. It's all about death like maybe a part of her had died there. Hatteras is in North Carolina (in case you were wondering, I was). She also makes a reference to a snake and how it rolled on the moss. Snakes aren't usually the picture of happiness and she says "I also left a skin there." Whenever I think of snake skin I can't help but think of Harry Potter. Her snake skin probably isn't that big but it's something she felt she had to shed and leave behind in that place. Death maybe? "Birth, not death, is the hard loss." That's the most powerful line I think because people usually love babies and birth is so magical and she's saying here it's not it's sad if you're born here it's misery.