Potter
Potter - meaning Summary
Union Through Molded Bodies
This short lyric addresses a beloved as a body shaped to fit the speaker’s desire. Using pottery and earth imagery, the poem depicts the lover as formed for union—clay molded by the speaker’s hands, body parts described as complementary voids and fittings. The result is mutual completion: two incomplete elements becoming whole together, emphasizing physical intimacy as a metaphoric merging of identity and need.
Read Complete AnalysesYour whole body has a fullness or a gentleness destined for me. When I move my hand up I find in each place a dove that was seeking me, as if they had, love, made you of clay for my own potter's hands. Your knees, your breasts, your waist are missing parts of me like the hollow of a thirsty earth from which they broke off a form, and together we are complete like a single river, like a single grain of sand.
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