Remembrance
For Paul
Remembrance - meaning Summary
Longing After Intimate Absence
The speaker recalls an intimate encounter with vivid sensory detail—touch, scent, and a smile—emphasizing bodily closeness and the lover’s compelling presence. The poem contrasts that intense moment with the subsequent withdrawal, when only memory and the lingering scent remain. Desire and appetite persist after absence, and the speaker admits a consuming need to reclaim the beloved’s presence through recollection and longing.
Read Complete AnalysesYour hands easy weight, teasing the bees hived in my hair, your smile at the slope of my cheek. On the occasion, you press above me, glowing, spouting readiness, mystery rapes my reason When you have withdrawn your self and the magic, when only the smell of your love lingers between my breasts, then, only then, can I greedily consume your presence.
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