{"id":21603,"date":"2011-12-20T19:11:37","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T03:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/after-disappointment-poem-by-mark-jarman\/"},"modified":"2011-12-20T19:11:37","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T03:11:37","slug":"after-disappointment-poem-by-mark-jarman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/after-disappointment-poem-by-mark-jarman\/","title":{"rendered":"After Disappointment | Poem by Mark Jarman"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s a moving poem about parenthood, about finding one\u2019s self to be an adult but still trying to care for the child within. Mark Jarman teaches at Vanderbilt University.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

After Disappointment<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

To lie in your child\u2019s bed when she is gone<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Is calming as anything I know. To fall<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Asleep, her books arranged above your head,<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Is to admit that you have never been<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

So tired, so enchanted by the spell<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Of your grown body. To feel small instead<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Of blocking out the light, to feel alone,<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Not knowing what you should or shouldn\u2019t feel,<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Is to find out, no matter what you\u2019ve said<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

About the cramped escapes and obstacles<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

You plan and face and have to call the world,<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

That there remain these places, occupied<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

By children, yours if lucky, like the girl<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Who finds you here and lies down by your side.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation,<\/a> publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.\u00a0Poem copyright \u00a91997 by Mark Jarman and reprinted from Bone Fires: New and Selected Poems, Sarabande Books, 2011, by permission of Mark Jarman and the publisher.\u00a0Introduction copyright \u00a92011 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction’s author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006. We do not accept unsolicited manuscripts. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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