High Water Has Licked
High Water Has Licked - meaning Summary
Rural Night and Yearning
The speaker moves through a flooded rural night, observing transformed landscape details—the silt, the moon, haystacks that resemble churches—and registering small, solemn sounds like a grouse’s call. These images create a hush of melancholy and reverence. Amid the marshes and twilight the speaker quietly expresses spiritual concern and tenderness, offering a private prayer for an absent or beloved person’s future, blending natural observation with intimate hope.
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