Trickle, Drops
Trickle, Drops - meaning Summary
Confession Through Blood
The speaker urges their bleeding drops to fall as a raw confession, using blood as a metaphor for intimate truth. They want these drops to stain their pages, songs, and words so that inner wounds and concealed selfhood are made visible. The poem insists on candid exposure and saturation of the poet’s work with personal, blushing evidence, suggesting catharsis through unflinching self-revelation.
Read Complete AnalysesTRICKLE, drops! my blue veins leaving! O drops of me! trickle, slow drops, Candid, from me falling—drip, bleeding drops, From wounds made to free you whence you were prison’d, From my face—from my forehead and lips, From my breast—from within where I was conceal’d—press forth, red drops—confession drops; Stain every page—stain every song I sing, every word I say, bloody drops; Let them know your scarlet heat—let them glisten; Saturate them with yourself, all ashamed and wet; Glow upon all I have written, or shall write, bleeding drops; Let it all be seen in your light, blushing drops.
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