Have Me
Have Me - meaning Summary
Returning to Elemental Origins
The poem asks to be possessed or remembered within elemental spaces—the blue, the sun, the open sea, the mountains—while depicting a solitary return to origins on the sea floor. The speaker describes the body as made of salt and chlorine, lungs and breath, and frames death as a lone, natural rejoining with the earth. Love reaches outward but stops where the speaker sinks; the closing plea repeats the opening request.
Read Complete AnalysesHave me in the blue and the sun. Have me on the open sea and the mountains. When I go into the grass of the sea floor, I will go alone. This is where I came from- the chlorine and the salt are blood and bones. It is here the nostrils rush the air to the lungs. It is here oxygen clamors to be let in. And here in the root grass of the sea floor I will go alone. Love goes far. Here love ends. Have me in the blue and the sun.
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