A Light Out
a light Out & first of all foam -like hair spatters creasing pillow next everywhere hidinglyseek no o god dear wait sh please o no O 3rd Findingest whispers understand sobs bigly climb what(love being some- thing possibly more intricate)i(breath in breath)have nicknamed ecstasy and And spills smile cheaply thick --who therefor Thee(once and once only,Queen among centuries universes between Who out of deeplyness rose to undeath) salute. and having worshipped for my doom pass ignorantly into sleep's bright land
A Light Out - meaning Summary
Ecstasy as Worshipful Delirium
This short lyric compresses a moment of ecstatic, half-sensual worship. Fragmented images—light, foam, hair, breath—converge into a speaker’s delirious naming of "ecstasy" and an address to a beloved elevated to quasi-divine status. The tone shifts between physical intimacy and spiritual adoration, concluding with an acceptance of doom and a surrender into sleep. The poem juxtaposes bodily detail and exalted language to suggest rapture that is both personal and overwhelming.
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