Poetry Blog

I chose Still Memory by Mary Karr.
This poem I feel is about an adult who has a dream about memories from her childhood. She describes the smells that she remembers from her chilhood such as "coffee's smoky odor" and the "crude oil and solvent" that her dad smells of when he comes home from work. She describes the dream so deep, these memories she probably hasn't thought about in a very long time. I feel that the author uses imagery very well. You can almost picture being in the house. Smelling the smells, and seeing the things she sees. I believe every adult has these moments where they look back and remember the little things. Most of the time, it's the little things that we remember the most. Such as the smell of a certain meal your mom would always cook, or the smell of the cleaner your mother uses. Or the sounds and sights of growing up. Certain traditions will always stick with us. For the author, these certain things came in a dream. Things she may have thought she had forgotten.