Small female skull

• “Love, I murmur to my skull, then louder, other grand words, Shouting the hollow nouns in the white-tiled room”

  • Themes of loss, emptiness, and the fragility of language
  • The mention of "skull" evokes imagery of death, highlighting the transient nature of love and existence.
  • ‘love’ once meaningful but now feels hollow, reinforcing themes of lost passion or emotional detachment.
  • The speaker addresses themselves in a deeply introspective moment, suggesting loneliness or self-reflection.
• “What is it like? An ocarina? Blow in its eye. It cannot cry, holds my breath only as long as i exhale”

  • The rhetorical question suggests curiosity, confusion, or an attempt to define something intangible, possibly death, memory, or emotional emptiness.
  • The ocarina, a small wind instrument, symbolises breath, sound, and fragility
  • Metaphor - breath represents life, but attempting to "blow life" into something lifeless is futile.
  • hints at mortality, grief, and the attempt to revive something lost
• “So why do i kiss it on the brow, my warm lips to its papery bone”

  • The rhetorical question suggests uncertainty or emotional conflict, may be questioning their own actions or feelings toward something lost.
  • a tender, intimate gesture, often associated with love, respect, or mourning. This suggests the person is engaging in a farewell or act of remembrance for something that has metaphorically or literally died
  • contrast between warmth of life and frailty of death highlights the transient nature of life and love