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The last three lines of "Contusion" are the most perfect expression of
death I've ever read:
The heart shuts.
The sea slides back
The mirrors are sheeted.
I can't say I really understand the rest of the poem, although it's vivid
and I love it, especially the "doom mark" crawling down the wall, but those
last lines stand out so completely for me that I tend to disassociate them
from the rest of the poem. To me, those lines are what death is, its
finality, a soul and mind vanishing completely from the ocean of life,
consciousness and the world.
lawson from United States