dangerous
to disdain the plaster saints
before which your mother kneels
praying with embarrassing fervor
that you survive in the place you have chosen to live:
a bare, cold room with no pictures on the walls,
a forgetting place where she fears you will die
of loneliness and exposure.
What imagery in this passage creates a visual of the speaker's heritage?
O "Ioneliness and exposure"
© *plaster saints," "mother kneels praying"
O "the place you have chosen to live, "a forgetting place"
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a bare, cold room with no pictures on the walls'