A Meeting
A Meeting - meaning Summary
Renewal Through Wild Encounter
The poem records the speaker's encounter with a newly hatched turtle and its mother, whom she imagines as a woman of extraordinary beauty. Watching them together transforms an ordinary moment in nature into a vision of birth, renewal, and kinship. The speaker's response is not sentimental: it becomes a wish to start life again with greater openness to the wild world.
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