Somebody Loved

[NakedBear]

Sun bends down
to lick the yearning flesh of Earth
whose belly ends another flight
through shining day-
the sea turns into wine.

I am naked for the sun.
With eager, open mouth
I devour the days
and make the lazy seasons run.

My breasts,
as true a refuge as the earth,
wait for the kiss of night before
time steals my supple hearth.

Then,
having loved
for love’s sake,
death can come.

So, stanzas one and two personify earth and sun as lovers. A nice image (esp line 1 and 2). Then in stanza three speaker appears and is then equated as the earth from the first two stanzas.

All good. But who is night, and what is hearth? Earth above was lover of the sun, but here speaker seems anticipating a different lover. And does earth have a hearth? Is hearth meaning the earth's molten core, which will certainly cool with time? It's not so clear.

And so the last stanza has lost its punch for me, because I've become a bit muddled in the one before it.

So, all in all, I really liked the images opening this piece. But the nature of speaker and her lover could do with more clarification. At least, I think so.

Mikey.