Rinse |
| Rinse continues the thread of references to water and ships in the poem. But it is the first reference to a cleansing fresh water, as opposed to the corrosive salt water, the kind brine, that begins the poem. The turn to fresh water toward the end of the poem marks the poet's interest in what endures past ruin; indeed it begins the suggestion that the ruin the crab undergoes is might even be cleansing. |
