The theme of this poem is that a single tragedy can make you sensitive to the possibility of future tragedies.
In poems, the theme is the underlying idea or the idea the author wants to convey.
In this poem, the narrator describes she survived to tragedy as she lost a child and she is thinking about all the possible accidents or tragedies that are still waiting to happen.
The main underlying idea is how tragedies are possible and part of life but one is only aware of it once one experiences tragedy or in other words that a single tragedy can make you sensitive to the possibility of future tragedies.
Note: This question is incomplete because the poem is missing; here is the missing poem:
There is no infant his time,
only my own life swaddled
in bandages
and handed back to me
to hold in my two arms
like any new thing,
to hold to my bruised breasts and promise to cherish.
The smell of cut
flowers encloses this room,
insistent as anesthetic.
It is spring.
Outside the hospital window
the first leaves have opened
their shiny blades,
and a dozen new accidents
turn over in their sleep,
waiting to happen.
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