Frying Trout While Drunk by Lynn Emanuel

This poem is a reflection of how women can be abuse themselves due to the influence of alcohol. The mother of the author is constantly drunk, and is in an abusive relationship, and after it ends she drowns herself in alcohol in an effort to forget this seemingly futile affair. The author is not only sexually abused as a youngster when she observes sexual acts between her mother and the man, but she also picks up her mother's drinking habits. The author uses vivid adjectives- the man's 'lechery' behavior and how the 'dark slung across the porch' indicating not only the literal darkness but the hopelessness in her life and surroundings.