Amber Comments

There's an urgency inn this poem which is dramatically apparent in the way it keeps us aware of the speaker's age at each stage of experience. I love at the very beginning the line: THE STREETS LOVE US NOW. It shows how full of joy and anticipation of more joy the speaker is. Of course, it's not the streets that are in love: the speaker is, but her interior happiness overflows any normal limit and makes the world itself joyous. I paused after that first stanza because I could already feel this happiness would not last, because the emotion that supported it would prove inadequate.The second stanza expresses the arousal of love when things spin out of control as they are meant too. The ancient Greeks said Aphrodite was the goddess who loosens and thus frees. But in the last stanzas things fall apart, there's no center to hold them together as you reveal in the line:

An interesting and reflective piece.