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Hello i needed help with a poem called “Dubbel zoet”?
hi my name is robyn and i am having troble with this poem called
“Dubbel zoet” by J. Rhodes i can’t seem to get the total meaning and the meter for this poem if you could help me here it is below:
DUBBEL ZOET
In your lying mouth
I didn’t know I’d become
aniseblack gum. Instead,
I thought your teeth were my own mortar,
that I would grind myself clean
against you.
Last night, under the Meyer lemon,
I found two cat-dragged wings.
I buried them,
salt and sage and cedar,
a red ribbon from your Christmas box.
Now the crow’s head is there,
its milked-over eye
wanting nothing, its
muddy beak closed.
I find a spine, too,
a licorice whip with one feather.
I water the lemon tree,
this accidental rest. (Please e-mail me back with any info)
starting with the title–
DUBBEL ZOET is a dutch sweet. (first 3 links)
other things that i noticed
under the small ornament plant
she found only the winds of a bird
the cat had killed
she buried them,
in salt, sage, cedar—all forms of preservatives used in ancient times
and tied the bundle with a red ribbon
the crow–milked-over eye. the crow’s eye is blind, dead
wanting nothing—crows are know thiefs of shinny object
muddy beak closed –mouth fill with dirt
i find the spine -the cat had eaten the bird
and left a blacken twisted twig of a spine–picked clean of eatables from the cat who ate everything and twisted the spine
with one feather–where did the rest of the feathers go.
with the packet of sage, ceder, she buries the crow
in the place of the accident…the crow at rest
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