That Moment
When the pistol muzzle oozing blue vapour Was lifted away Like a cigarette lifted from an ashtray And the only face left in the world Lay broken Between hands that relaxed, being too late And the trees closed forever And the streets closed forever And the body lay on the gravel Of the abandoned world Among abandoned utilities Exposed to infinity forever Crow had to start searching for something to eat.
That Moment - meaning Summary
Survival After Human Catastrophe
The poem presents a violent death as a total collapse of human meaning: faces, streets, trees, and useful objects seem to vanish with the victim. Its final shift to Crow searching for food places the killing within an indifferent natural world. Hunger and survival continue after catastrophe, making the human event feel both devastating and cosmically isolated.
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