The speaker asks to be taken into the bright, open world—the blue sky, the sun, the sea, the mountains. There’s a longing to belong to vast, elemental places. Then the poem turns inward: when he sinks into the grasses of the sea floor, he says he will go alone. That underwater place is described as his source, as if the salt and chlorine of the sea are his own blood and bones, and breathing there is urgent and natural. The mood is calm and solitary, not frightening. “Love goes far. Here love ends” suggests that human connection can accompany him only so far; the deepest return to origins is private. The repeated opening line at the end makes the poem feel like a quiet, accepting prayer for union with nature and with the self.
Have Me — Summary
Have me in the blue and the sun. Have me on the open sea and the mountains. When I go into the grass of the sea floor, I will go alone. This is where I came from — the chlorine and the salt are blood and bones. It is here the nostrils rush the air to the lungs. It is here oxygen clamors to be let in. And here in the root grass of the sea floor I will go alone. Love goes far. Here love ends. Have me in the blue and the sun.