Shirt 2
Shirt 2 - meaning Summary
Memory Pursued in Motion
The speaker recalls repeated, fleeting encounters with a beloved presence that appears unexpectedly in ordinary scenes: a shirt in the wind, an image on a glass, a voice in a stranger, a shadow by a bonfire. These memories are insubstantial yet persistent, alternating between the city s bustle and quiet woodland. The beloved remains elusive, a phantom who retreats or re-emerges when the speaker tries to catch or "tag" that fluttering, evanescent image.
Read Complete AnalysesI remember once I ran after you and tagged the fluttering shirt of you in the wind. Once many days ago I drank a glassful of something and the picture of you shivered and slid on top of the stuff. And again it was nobody else but you I heard in the singing voice of a careless humming woman. One night when I sat with chums telling stories at a bonfire flickering red embers, in a language its own talking to a spread of white stars: It was you that slunk laughing in the clumsy staggering shadows. Broken answers of remembrance let me know you are alive with a peering phantom face behind a doorway somewhere in the city's push and fury Or under a pack of moss and leaves waiting in silence under a twist of oaken arms ready as ever to run away again when I tag the fluttering shirt of you.
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