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标题：On Catching Chikenpox from My Baby Daughter - Health - Poem
作者：Stephen Babb
期刊名称：Mothering
印刷版ISSN：0733-3013
出版年度：2004
卷号：Jan-Feb 2004
出版社：Mothering Magazine

On Catching Chikenpox from My Baby Daughter - Health - Poem

Stephen Babb

ON CATCHING CHICKENPOX
FROM MY BABY DAUGHTER

   While your brother regards
   My pocked visage
   With sober concern,
   You, Little one,
   Flash me a delighted grin.

   Is it that you see my affiction
   As a private joke
   Shared between us,
   A complicit conspiracy?
   Of do you perhaps recognize
   That this is your handiwork?

   Daughter
   Your imprint on my heart
   Will remain
   Long after these blemishes
   Have vanished.

   When I was diagnosed
   The doctor said,
   "Get ready to feel
   Really miserable
   For the next week."

   When you and your brother were born
   The doctors might have said,
   "There can be no immunity
   From the sweet pang of this love.
   Get redy to feel
   Completely different
   For the rest of your lives.
   Nothing will ever be the same."