Notice the Convulsed Orange Inch of Moon
Notice the Convulsed Orange Inch of Moon - meaning Summary
Intimacy Amid Mortality
The speaker invites a lover on a twilight walk from a polite town toward a wild forest, observing vivid, violent imagery: a distorted moon, miraculous fields, and microscopic withering identified as "the Black People" living under stones. They pass a crossroads of exact tombs where people lie "minutely dead," then the poem closes with a slow kiss. The lines juxtapose tenderness and erotic intimacy with social decay and mortality.
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