Mother, Summer, I

Any Good Poem

Richard Berlin, MD, shares Phillip Larkin's poem, "Mother, Summer, I."

Dr Berlin has been writing a poem about his experience of being a doctor every month for the past 25 years in Psychiatric Times® in a column called “Poetry of the Times.” He is instructor in psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts. His latest book is Freud on My Couch.