Eating Poetry (Excerpt)
Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry.
The librarian does not believe what she sees.
Her eyes are sad
and she walks with her hands in her dress.
The poems are gone.
The light is dim.
The dogs are on the basement stairs and coming up.
- Mark Strand
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The metaphor alludes to the narrator's joy.... his consumption of poetry. He has literally been "eating poetry."
The dog is merely a human (man) acting like a dog. In my opinion, the dogs exist only in the man's mind. I do not believe the lighting is meant to scare us, but rather, illustrate the passage of time.
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