The Mother by Brooks

  The poem is particularly of how a mother in general would feel about abortion, and how hard it looks to accept it later on in life. The mother in the poem says i loved you all (to the babies) which basically represents how much she did in fact care about them in general.

"you will never wind up the sucking thumb or scuttle off ghosts that come"

that line makes me think that the mother will always have a what if. what if this baby was destined to do something in life that was to impact others in their world. i see it like that because she says you will never be able to suck your thumb or scuttle off ghosts, which means he or she will never be able to do anything because they were taken care of. the poem shows tremdous amount of saddness as well.