«your eyes are palms that so comfortably…» — Summary

LucasRomantic

your eyes are palms that so comfortably can mold my corpse into something,someone sometime,an unhollow breath to follow your(allure sifting and starlit,evergreen everglades the eddies of your voice lingered,rosy dews heavenly,this misanthrope,i,no longer buried; the colors of our skin match in the dark,where kisses know naught but the clandestine of )us yes,mistakable and heartedly,your arms collapse into the form of me relieving the senses of wind and sun o,how Mother cannot understand what this means: not grass nor sea not sky nor tree ,but the remembrance of us,the nostalgia of the last second the last hours of one summer’s day the lips that ran themselves again and always again against the topography of our delicates the reminder of unrest that so helplessly slipped between our fingers,between our knees and shoulders the finite(of our tongues which left behind all traces of lick,to meet once more under the sunrise where everything,everyone,everytime made the body weak

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Told in a rush of images, this is a love poem about a summer romance, and the speaker is overwhelmed by it. Addressed to a lover named in the title, "Lucas," it opens with the idea that being seen by this person gives the speaker new shape and life. The speaker calls himself a misanthrope, someone who dislikes people, yet says he is "no longer buried." Love has pulled him out of isolation.

The middle of the poem suggests a secret relationship. The kisses belong to "the clandestine," and the speaker says his Mother cannot understand what this means. Judging by the imagery, the love is private, perhaps hidden from others.

The ending turns to memory. The speaker looks back on the last hours of a summer day, on kissing, touching, and the fear that it will not last. The word "finite" hints at that fear. The mood is tender, sensual, and wistful, with a loss of control in the final line: "made the body weak."

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