To a Man
To a Man - meaning Summary
Amber as Changing Constancy
This short lyric addresses a beloved man through vivid, sensual images that trace both change and continuity. The speaker admires physical warmth, playful secrecy, and a catlike grace, while repeating amber as a controlling metaphor for transformation and preserved identity. Tension between renewal and sameness—"always into itself"—frames the poem as an affirmation of attraction that accepts flux without losing essential steadiness.
Read Complete AnalysesMy man is Black Golden Amber Changing. Warm mouths of Brandy Fine Cautious sunlight on a patterned rug Coughing laughter, rocked on a whorl of French tobacco Graceful turns on woolen stilts Secretive? A cat's eye. Southern. Plump and tender with navy-bean sullenness And did I say “Tender”? The gentleness A big cat stalks through stubborn bush And did I mention “Amber”? The heatless fire consuming itself. Again. Anew. Into ever neverlessness. My man is Amber Changing Always into itself New. Now New. Still itself. Still.
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