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I choose this poem because when I first read it, it made me think of a pregnant woman at her doctors appointment, putting her feet up on the table to have an ultrasound or just a check up. "On your first visit, you put your feet up on my polished table." (line 1-2). It made me think of this because I have a friend who is going through a pregnancy right now and she is very tiny with a huge belly. When the narrator says "i had to talk to you by leaning round." (9) it made me think of my friend because I feel like I have to do that when she is relaxing.
As the poem goes on though it seems like it could be any kind of doctors appointment, maybe a therapist with a patient? I'm not really sure. She says that they see each other after this but she never see's her put her feet back up on the table like she did the first time. So she think's it was a test, to see how she would react. To see if she was very stern and strict about her belongings.
The questions that I have for this poem would be, if the narrator is the doctor? And why would she "just set a knife on one side and a fork on the other" (14-15) I really didn't understand that statement. One other question I have towards this poem is why would she think she have passed whatever test it was but also feel like she failed it?
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