I Would Distil a Cup

I Would Distil a Cup - meaning Summary

Ritual Severance by Drink

The speaker imagines distilling a cup to distribute among friends as a symbolic act that prevents a particular woman from stirring influence or attendance. The gesture is final and communal: wine-like sharing becomes a means to erase or exclude her presence from familiar places and interactions. The poem frames social removal as deliberate and ritualized, suggesting intimacy turned into a way to enforce absence.