Boy at the edge of the Woods; Free write

I noticed that the language in the poem was very interconnected with nature and natural disasters. All of the descriptors were very earthy, for example the word leaves was used three times. Twice for the usage of going one place to another and once for the  plural of leaf. The connection between the boy at the edge of the wood and nature was very obvious to me. I knew there was a deeper meaning to the woods alluded to in the poem. This got me to thinking of what woods and Forrest and natural spaces could mean. I immidialaty connected it to how Nathaniel Hawthorne alluded to the Forrest in The Scarlet Letter. In Nathaniel’s novel the Forrest was almost a portal into another world (Hawthorne Chpt 18.), a shade of leaves to cover them from the judging eyes of the towns folk. I really connected this to the poem. The Forrest is an out of the ordinary space for sexual play leading to the assumption this was secret, a roundezvous, an affair. But the wording boy lead me to think of young love, its passionate quick, a puppy love of sorts. I image two boys taken with each other that meet repeatedly at the edge of the wood away from the eyes that judge or forbid there relations, or would forbid if they knew what the relation entailed. Away from the “burning house”, this stuck out to me the cool of nature, the safety, the growth, the beauty compared to a burning man made structure, the harsh outside world, the world outside of the “portal”. I will assume that the house was not actually burning but take it as a metaphor for a heated environment a hostile one. It may represent an environment that does not accept this love the boys have. What I am trying to illustrate is that the connection between nature and safety as well as the word leaves makes the poem what it is. This is the end of a boys passionate rendezvous and the safety of the natural world away from people creates a world meant for him. And reality sets in at the end to return to his hostile environment that does not accept him or find him natural. The fleeting moment of Comfert they both have is only temporary as the poem itself begins at the end, he closes his zipper, his tongue leaves, leaves me alone. What an emphasis on the word alone as well a full pause, the emotion attached to it is so isolate. The excitement is over and we get to feel how desperate the author is to stay in the closure of the woods with the boy.