This feels vulnerable somehow.Īnd yet now another change, for it seems that the heart’s ground is now ‘overgrown with bitter weeds and rue’. I’m interested in the ‘heart’s ground’ and what it takes to release these kinds of thoughts from its safe soil. It seems these thoughts have grown slowly over time. I love the word ‘unfolded’ here and that image of the flower opening very gradually. Like the flowers in the way they ‘unfolded…on warm and cold days’ here she shares something more personal, her ‘thoughts’, pulled up from her ‘heart’s ground’. Now it is the writer’s turn to give something to the one she calls ‘Beloved’. Although it seems there is a change or a shift as we hit line 6, with the phrase ‘take back’. Maybe the fact that flowers can grow in the room makes it feel like a garden to her. I’m struck immediately by the setting of the poem ‘In this close room’ and wonder why it is that the writer is here rather than out in the garden enjoying the flowers in their natural habitat? The flowers themselves seem not to miss the ‘sun and showers’, but I can’t tell if the writer feels the same.
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