s not recover. Instead grief is a portion of the cyclical flow of life. Divergence may influence one's life, but harmony is on the horizon. Sorrowfully, the reverse is also true.
             The alternate connotation of sway leaves less room for optimism. When one sways, it is from lack of control. Swaying is a result of a powerful force acting on a less powerful entity. Like field of barley swaying in the wind, the speaker is helpless to change the movement of his/her own life. The only other mention made of the movement of the speaker is when he/she says, "from bar to bar in terror I shall move past Forty-third and Halsted, Twenty-fourth and Roosevelt" (Johnson 2-4). The speaker conveys this information as if it matters, as if taking a cab further downtown will provide a release from the helplessness of losing love. The mistake in this notion is suggested in subsequent lines. Having moved in terms of geographical location, the speaker finds only "fire-gutted cars, their bones the bones of coyote and hyena" (Johnson 4-5). When one tries to run from grief, the impotence of that action is made clear t
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