Keyways

• "the last time together."


  Full stop compounds sense of finality.
• "thats how I felt when we first met - an uncut key"


  Intricate reflection on the workings of memories. Argues that relationships shape people.
• "until our key ways would fit as they finally did in that chapel [...] touching at elbow, shoulder, hip"


  Moment of perfect unity. Triple connection of body parts could be a reference to the holy trinity. Draws upon religious language to emphasise the gravity of the moment.
• "like a pair of siamese twins, sharing one lung"


  Disturbing simile, suggests mutual codependency and vulnerability. A negative possibility of suffocation.
• "our tumblers aligned, precisely, perfectly"


  Idealises the relationship.
• "so when did the bolt slip? the blade break in the mouth?"

  Rhetorical questions, confusion and raw sadness.
• Cyclical beginning and end "strange then"
• Rhyming couplet at the end could suggest closure.