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'When I left the Sun' contrasts the Sun's constancy with the Moon's change, loss, and repeated forms of what was 'ment' to be.

The spelling slippages matter because the page is already about distortion and fate. Sun and Moon become a small cosmology for leaving, watching, and being altered.

Titled 'When I left the Sun,' a short, song-like lyric of leaving and loss built on a Sun/Moon cosmology. The Sun is constancy - 'Hard when the Sun did shine / And stayed the same' - against which 'I watched the Moon change / All for you / To be lost.' The close folds into incantatory repetition: 'The way the underneath / was ment to be / Ment to be / Ment tto be,' where the phrase decays slightly each time ('ment,' then the mistyped 'tto') so the spelling slippage enacts the distortion and fate the poem is about. Source spellings 'ment' and 'tto' kept verbatim.