Helping My Daughter Move into Her First Apartment by Sue Ellen Thompson : American Life in Poetry #2

This column originates on the campus of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and at the beginning of each semester, we see parents helping their children move into their dorm rooms and apartments and looking a little shaken by the process. This wonderful poem by Sue Ellen Thompson of Maryland captures not only a moment like that, but a mother’s feelings as well. Helping My Daughter Move into Her First Apartment

This is all I am to her now: