Question

what kind of pain does kamala das feel in ' my mother at sixty six' ?

Answer 1

Kamala feels the pain of insecurities or and health of her mother.
her mother's face was yellowish like a corpse .. that's show her mother's health .which was not good

Answer 2

The emotional ache and pain that the poet feels is due to the realization that her mother has gone in her old age and has become fragile and pale such as a corpse.

She is reliant on her children.

The pain also refers to the aged familiar pain of the childhood that revisits the writer due to the old age of mother and her imminent end.