So I went to El Paso over Spring Break for an immersion trip and did not have access to a computer so I will be posting my entrees for the last week and a half this evening with the date I wrote them as the title.
Today I focused on the second stanza. There is no real rhyme scheme except for the slant rhyme between "rage" and "brave". I understand that the "juice" mentioned in line six refers to the mayhaw and crab apple in the first stanza. However, I do not understand the reference to drunk and brave. The speaker compares himself and whomever he is with to birds diving through saw vines. The footnote tells me that saw vines refers to saw palmetto, which is a palm plant that produces berries. These berries were used by Native Americans as medicine, and I assume the palms are prickly so that may be why only brave birds would fly through them. Native Americans are also considered to be brave quite often, but that seems like a stretch. I also now can see that brave is also referring to how the speaker escaped his yard and got "lost" despite the fact that it seems someone was trying to keep him inside.
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