Secrecy
Secrecy - meaning Summary
Secrecy as Consumption
The poem personifies secrecy as a physical, almost consumable substance that once ingested becomes part of the self. Through sensual and violent imagery it shows secrecy as both seductive and corrosive: it blooms inside, creates appetite, and grants a perverse power to know without being known. That power isolates and brutalizes, suggested by motifs of doors, veils, crushed fingers and drowned bones, implying moral cost and hidden violence.
Read Complete AnalysesSecrecy flows through you, a different kind of blood. It's as if you've eaten it like a bad candy, taken it into your mouth, let it melt sweetly on your tongue, then allowed it to slide down to your throat like the reverse of uttering, a word dissolved into its glottals and sibilants, a slow intake of breath - and now it's in you, secrecy. Ancient and vicious, luscious as dark velvet. It blooms in you a poppy made of ink. You can think of nothing else. Once you have it, you want more. what power it gives you! Power of knowing without being known, power of the stone door, power of the iron veil, power of the crushed fingers, power of the drowned bones crying out from the bottom of the well.
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