An Everywhere of Silver

An Everywhere of Silver - meaning Summary

Light and Fragile Boundaries

The short lyric presents a delicate, shimmering space that threatens to blur the distinction between land and something more fluid or luminous. The "everywhere of silver" evokes light or water spreading across the world, while "ropes of sand" are a fragile, makeshift boundary that prevents this spread from erasing the defined path of land. The poem suggests transience and the tenuousness of human or natural borders, highlighting how barely adequate barriers hold shape against forces that would dissolve them.