Throwbacks
Throwbacks - meaning Summary
Primordial Shared Origin Memory
The poem evokes a hazy, communal memory of origins and intimate beginnings. The speaker addresses a familiar companion and recalls emerging from elemental conditions—sea, mud, mist—using tactile, bodily images. These shared recollections mix childhood play, physical closeness, and exuberant song under moonlight. The tone is inquisitive and celebratory, suggesting a mythic or primordial bond that links identity, memory, and shared experience rather than a literal past.
Read Complete AnalysesSOMEWHERE you and I remember we came. Stairways from the sea and our heads dripping. Ladders of dust and mud and our hair snarled. Rags of drenching mist and our hands clawing, climbing. You and I that snickered in the crotches and corners, in the gab of our first talking. Red dabs of dawn summer mornings and the rain sliding off our shoulders summer afternoons. Was it you and I yelled songs and songs in the nights of big yellow moons?
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