Author Statement: “Each of Sylvia Plath’s poems, to me, is nearly personal with a heart and a soul that quiver with mine whenever I read it. My poem “2-Teardrops and Wife”, I believe, shares the vulnerability as well as the unapologetic voice with her poems, “Daddy” and “Lady Lazarus.”  The fact that I’m drawn to “such” themes speaks to that, I, too, had a haunting childhood. ”