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Yearning Across Distance
A speaker expresses aching longing and asks a distant beloved to describe how they miss and suffer in absence. Simple natural images—sea rocks with green moss, pine rocks with red berries—open the poem, then give way to pleas for testimonies of slow hours and the "iron drag" on the heart. The speaker emphasizes emptiness with stark similes, presenting absence as both physical and moral depletion.
Read Complete AnalysesTHE SEA rocks have a green moss. The pine rocks have red berries. I have memories of you. Speak to me of how you miss me. Tell me the hours go long and slow. Speak to me of the drag on your heart, The iron drag of the long days. I know hours empty as a beggar's tin cup on a rainy day, empty as a soldier's sleeve with an arm lost. Speak to me ...
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