Some things I looked up when I read this poem again. What is the name of a five line stanza? First thought for me was Cinquian, but that's also the name of the poetic form. This isn't a Cinquain in that sense. Another word is quintain. This is more apt. "Psalm." Initially I thought "prayer," but I wanted to make sure and the definition is "hymn, or sacred song." For me, the focus of the poem is spiritual -- about that in-between state between the actual and the memory; the here and the past. "Ignorance will carry me through the last days, / the blistering cities, over briny rivers / swarming with jellyfish [...]" The speaker is confronting the last of their day, or perhaps all of humanity. The imagery does go towards big encompassing images: cities blistering in the sun to a little more focus but just as big rivers, to a more enveloping image of jellyfish. I think the last image is gambling that the reader feels consumed ...
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