Clown in the Moon

Clown in the Moon - meaning Summary

Fragile Grief and Wonder

The speaker expresses a fragile, inward sorrow that feels both delicate and overwhelming. Grief is likened to drifting petals and traced to a vague rupture in memory or experience. The speaker senses the world as tremulous and dreamlike, so exquisitely sad that any physical contact seems likely to shatter it. The poem conveys a mingled feeling of beauty and vulnerability, where loss makes existence feel unreal and perilously fragile.