Muted

[Leanne]

I've read this through several times and picked up more as I go, which you know I like To get the reading I was happiest with, I had to start at the end, because you've got yet another alchemical reference and I'm not entirely sure I get why you use the "white banded mockingbird", but here's what I thought:

I can't decide whether the entire thing is about a physical death or the death of a part of the speaker, youth and innocence. Alternatively, the death of a relationship. If it's a physical death, though, I keep thinking it's of a young lover but it could just as easily be a child, a miscarriage -- but then "synaptic pyrotechnics" throws me, because that implies a connection of minds and their fascination. Now, to me transmutation in conjunction with the white part suggests defeat of disease as well as the ability to shed the physical body (because I'm thinking white powder gold) -- but the mockingbird is a mimic, which indicates to me that no matter how much this process is desired, it is all illusion.

I'm just musing really, don't give anything away, I just wanted to let you know it was making me think and I'll keep thinking some more.