Mist Forms
Mist Forms - meaning Summary
Desire Amid Elusive Truth
The poem sketches a brief, mist-tinged encounter that blends physical intimacy with metaphysical questioning. Using night mist as a setting and metaphor, the speaker recalls a meeting at sundown—simultaneously intimate and elusive—and asks how touch, vow, and perception relate to mortality. The closing lines frame the experience as a paradoxical oath, a riddle about "nothing and all" that resists clear explanation or resolution.
Read Complete AnalysesTHE SHEETS of night mist travel a long valley. I know why you came at sundown in a scarf mist. What was it we touched asking nothing and asking all? How many times can death come and pay back what we saw? In the oath of the sod, the lips that swore, In the oath of night mist, nothing and all, A riddle is here no man tells, no woman.
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