Poems of the Night 2
I surely reek of what I have seen. For I surely know that the words I spew are the shapes they shy at.
The speaker feels contaminated by experience. To "reek" of what they have seen is to say that sight doesn't simply pass through you; it clings, like smoke in clothing, and other people can smell it. The word "surely," repeated twice, sounds less like confidence than like a grim admission.
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