Adam
Adam - meaning Summary
Birth, Bodies, Biblical Echo
The poem links violent birth imagery with biblical symbolism to explore creation’s contradictory outcomes. A woman’s labor is rendered as a bleeding tree and fractured glass, while light frames the scene as a fable that both reveals and erases bodily tumult. Two Adams dream: one envisions progeny and warmth, the other a sterile, lunar stone where the potential child is consumed. The work contrasts fertility and negation, life and symbolic annihilation.
Read Complete AnalysesA tree of blood soaks the morning where the newborn woman groans. Her voice leaves glass in the wound and on the panes, a diagram of bone. The coming light establishes and wins white limits of a fable that forgets the tumult of veins in flight toward the dim cool of the apple. Adam dreams in the fever of the day of a child who comes galloping through the double pulse of his cheek. But a dark other Adam is dreaming a neuter moon of seedless stone where the child of light will burn.
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