Silence Doubles As The Well Deepens

[Valerie Please]

Silence Doubles As The Well Deepens


I’ll dig up the garden,
remove the dead flowers 
and trees.
And once it’s all done,
or better undone,
I’ll love you like love’s on its knees.

Love on it’s knees, a gardener, ripping out the excess. I like the image and the inherent contrast there of creativity versus destruction, which goes along with the title. It sounds like a double burial.
 
And you’ll read like a book
with a beautiful mouth, 
and all of our kisses
will rhyme.
And then you’ll unlock
the safe to a clock
that tells the most beautiful time.

Rhyming kisses again suggests symmetry, doubling up. The stanza is filled with symmetries. A book is inherently symmetrical. The repetition of the word beauty.

It is so pretty. I still wouldn’t mind seeing you ruin it and take it in a darker place since it is too perfect and exquisite. There is a wind up quality to the feel of it and I want to hear the little song wind down and go out of tune.