Summary

"Grandfather's Hands" uses second person point of view to describe "your grandfather" and "your grandmother" (11). The poem describes the grandmother kissing the grandfather's hands, and the physicality of their relationship when they were younger.

In "Bone," the speaker discovers an emaciated, bulimic girl living in the spare room of her house. The speaker lives with someone named only as "you," and this person wants to save the ill girl. The speaker and the girl have the same lips, and the girl tells them that her father likes to punch girls in the face. The speaker listens to the "you" comforting the sick girl, and the speaker wonders, "What can you do, that you would not do for me?" (12). She then counts her ribs before falling asleep.

In "Snow," the speaker describes her parents' wedding night. Her father was a drunk, and he married...