How Did It End?

Grief for the end of a relationship processed through the eyes of those outside it — the speaker imagines the questions strangers and friends will ask about what happened. Loss made public and social…

"My beloved ghost and me, sitting in a tree, D-Y-I-N-G"

One of Taylor's most explicit ghost images — the ghost as intimate companion, the childhood spelling game turned gothic elegy. The gallows-humour register (sitting in a tree, D-Y-I-N-G) sharpens the G…