This poem portrays the love and immense amount of brokenness is unreal throughout this. While reading it, I was confused as to what the message was showing. I could not tell whether the message of the poem was to send a signal of missing love, heartbreak, abandonment, or whatever it was. If you think about it, this poem is one of the authors darker and a failure of love and incorporates affair throughout it as well. But while this poem contains dark and mysterious issues, there is also beauty and a great deal of optimism throughout this peace as well.
“We might have coupled in the bed-ridden monopoly of a moment or broken flesh with one another at the profane communion table where wine is spill’d promiscuous lips. We might have given birth to a butterfly with the daily news printed in blood on its wings.”
After I read this, I wondered if this meant something along the lines of abortion. When the poem said, “a monopoly or broken flesh with one another” made me personally think of the thought process of woman or a couple who expresses the thoughts of themselves while going through this hard time. While this poem seems to be spoken from the heart, it also offers a deconstruction but reconstruction of love in a modern world that we live in today. That to me is a refreshing mindset that speaks high volumes to both the reader and the author. Along with this poem being about a so-called “abortion” aspect, it can also be about two people whose love life is messy, unpredicted and still never answered as far as the outcome of the total relationship. To me, that screams a reality check for relationships that happen nowadays in society. People are very confused and unappreciative of what they have in front of them so when situations like this arise, this creates deconstruction among the both.