Around Back

[Miley]

Hey Tranquil, I was hesitant to respond to this one largely because much like your last poem, i'm puzzled in many places. The subject of the two poems does feel related. I tried to offer my thoughts or reaction to most lines. I take this poem to be a contemplation on our relationship to death/mortality. Why do we fear death? Why should anyone come back from the dead? I want to recommend the poetry book, Black Aperture by Matt Rasmussen. The book is the poet dealing with the suicide of his brother. I could only find an audio recording of one of the poems https://poets.org/poem/after-suicide-audio-only 

It seems to be night I'm wondering if seems is doing much here.
inside and out Some nocturnal correspondence between the world and the interior of our narrator
outside out. what? 

Wait.
This is where
waiting gives back a moment. Waiting normally takes time, but now waiting is doing the opposite. After reading the previous stanza, Im realizing this has resonance with Jesus waiting to go to Lazarus. But why does he wait? . 

Four days dead
Lazarus had no words left,
waiting for the second time around. I like this stanza, It gives me something of a point of reference for the rest of the poem, and it also allows me to think of the Lazarus story from a fresh perspective (his time waiting for resurrection) but I also realized on closer reading that the middle line is perhaps self apparent? 

Around back the title!
you will find
a third time, because Reminds me of a quote I read once, “There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.”

the living hate nothing
like a void. This is the narrators conception of death, as a void? The tomb as a void? I've thought about these last two lines for awhile. 

End with a love song
about it lost  I could guess, but i'm not entirely sure what it is. It does seem to me as though we are no longer in the Larazus story exactly.  
maybe in the night Recalls the night in the first stanza
maybe not at all. Its a melancholy ending, maybe something of a void. Coming to terms with a void?