Question

The cardboard shows me how it was
When the 'wo girl cousins went paddling, IVame the
Poet of
Each one holding one of my mother's hands,
the poem.
And she the big girl - some twelve years or so.
All three stood still to smile through their hair
At the uncle with the camera, A sweet face pome nema​

Answer 1

Answer:

The poem is "A photograph by Shirley"

Explanation:

1. The speaker has a snapshot or cardboard or photo. It has her mother and two cousins of her mother. It was clicked when she was a teenager and went to a beach with her uncle or a holiday. All three were smiling through their hair. Some 20 or 30 years later the mother saw it again and laughed. The mother told her daughter about her cousins-Betty and Dolly. Then suddenly she died. The last laughter of the speaker’s mother had become her past. She had to bear this loss with difficulty.