Comments on: What Does This Poem Alzheimer’s By Kelly Cherry Mean?

By: Black Cloud

Black Cloud — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:16:12 +0000

Returning home from the war perhaps? the woman could be his mother. War has changed him so much he is no longer a ‘young, naive man’.

By: ♥ChRiSbR

♥ChRiSbR — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:24:29 +0000

i dunno maybe a guys life?
like he comes home from the hospital when hes born, then his life passes him by,
and he ends up being old with an old woman waiting for him at there house?

By: ulagam

ulagam — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:59:13 +0000

It makes a lot of sense to me. It graphically portrays the mind and the graphics of a Alzheimer patient, back from the hospital. He struggling with his memory, recapitulating all about his house and yet wanting to attend to pressing things less the memory completely forsakes him. For him, even the spouse waiting in the house is someone hard to remember and that is an indication of his failing faculties. Well written poem.