“Answer My Questions:” is a poem written by Meg Day that is written from the point of view of someone having to witness the impending or current death of a child. This is told to me by the last couplet in the poem,
How do you choose a coffin
for a body that’s still growing
This poem really spoke to me, not for similar life experiences, but I feel sympathetic to the sadness and desperate questioning the narrator is feeling. It talks about some child developmental milestones like in the second stanza.
who taught them to hold the pencil
that recorded the hour, tick marks
in a bedpost, or your height
against the kitchen wall
I find this to be a great example of humanizing the entire story and making it feel more real because it describes a common tradition in families, which makes the reader feel more connected to the story in this poem.