The Gardener 79: Through the Disguise
The Gardener 79: Through the Disguise - meaning Summary
Primal Kinship Revealed
The poem meditates on blurred boundaries between humans and animals, imagining a forgotten kinship that survives as a dim, primal memory. In sudden, wordless moments a mutual recognition returns: the beast meets the human with trust, the human with affectionate amusement. The image of meeting "masked" suggests social disguises that hide an underlying shared origin and spontaneous, tender encounters across species.
Read Complete AnalysesI often wonder where lie hidden the boundaries of recognition between man and the beast whose heart knows no spoken language. Through what primal paradise in a remote morning of creation ran the simple path by which their hearts visited each other. Those marks of their constant tread have not been effaced though their kinship has been long forgotten. Yet suddenly in some wordless music the dim memory wakes up and the beast gazes into the man's face with a tender trust, and the man looks down into its eyes with amused affection. It seems that the two friends meet masked and vaguely know each other through the disguise.
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