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Published: 2010-05-28 00:52:25 +0000 UTC; Views: 285; Favourites: 3; Downloads: 3
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We mustn't eat in the doldrums or the dark but-I felt you most sharp when we gripped one another
blind and hard, breath high in our throats and you tasted
all of pomegranate; I thought I could drink you down
in shot-sized swallows that burned frozen through my chest,
with chasers of the River Styx (and six sips later,
approach morning bold and lucid like late springtime).
Sometimes I think I flung my own self from the outcrop.
If you are to know the truth of it,
know I had always been drawn to the crags,
and you are made of them. Know my lips
delved into the ledges and rock faces I found with the lights out
for the sake of vertigo, of shadow, the grit rasping at my skin.
Know, dear, that you did not snatch me chained, from meadows,
and I was never the delicate sort of hostage who wasted
away white and still into another of your ghosts,
or the bitter bitch who gnashed her teeth and screamed
through her shackles and the night and the blood on her tongue—
remember singularly how I savored the ash in the air there,
the first ever flavor of winter. And maybe remember
I delighted in every moment you took to ravage
the zest of grass and rose oil off my body: oh Gods
it was delectable to be barren.
We mustn't eat in the doldrums or the dark but
it is so easy to forget what you can't see.
I would give anything to have grasped sooner
that therein lay the lure, I would give anything
to burn blank the image of your potent glare:
I bit into the pomegranate seeds.
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It's beautiful and brilliant. The physicality is represented in a mature and gorgeous manner. The piece has a constant undertone of lust and passion, but it never overtakes the piece itself, merely enhances it, nor does it become the defining part of the piece itself. It is used to portray the nature of the relationship between Persephone and Hades. My sense of meaning from this is that Persephone wanted something precisely because it was the unknown and the unseen. The interactions that occured between them before she ate the seeds where always brief, hidden, shadowed trysts and it wasn't until she ate the seeds that she saw the entirety of the truth. It lost its taboo nature,and she wishes she could go back. And the transitions are fine, I don't find them cliche at all.
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