Summary

The speaker declares that she will "risk losing" her new name for "sleep," and compares this to the way that "you lost your rosen moon" (2-3). Now, she calls sleep by another name. In the third stanza, the speaker discusses how difficult it is to extricate herself from certain things, including "a wonder, a grief or a line from her," even when these things make her tremble (5).

In Stanza 5, the speaker renames anxiety as desire and as a garden. She brings in the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca's line "verde que te quiero verde" and discusses the color green in conjunction with desire throughout the rest of the poem (11).

At night, the speaker's mind is a beast that grows worries. When she is not "yoked to exhaustion // beneath the hip and plow" of her lover, the speaker wanders the desire field (15-...