GPT
The poem speaks from separation toward reunion, using sea, river, storm, and prayer to imagine a love that can survive distance without being reduced or shamed.
A landlocked man of the sea is already a divided figure, and that tension drives the whole piece. Children, women, rivers, and winds broaden the address beyond one private relationship, but the aim remains intimate: to meet rightly, eye to eye, through heavy weather rather than wishful softness. The closing prayer resists analysis that would turn love into disgrace, and asks instead for a burial that keeps being abstract and undiminished.
Claude
'A Poet's Problem': 'For a man of the sea landlocked children swim / By him', and the speaker prays through 'the heavy storm to surfaced minds' that 'love will never be dissected as disgrace. / When I only ment that my being be buried abstract.'
The opening figure is a man of the sea stranded among 'landlocked children', a scale mismatch between the speaker and the place he has washed up in. The poem refuses the easy comfort of wishing: 'it is not a wish, wishes being too light. / For it is the heavy storm to surfaced minds / we must use to find each other in the right' - reunion must be earned through weather, not longing. 'My children are many as the beads in lace' reroutes a worry about progeny onto craft and proliferation. The closing prayer is the title's actual problem: that 'love will never be dissected as disgrace' asks for a legacy that won't be anatomized, the exact fate the poet fears for his own love poems. Source spelling 'ment' is preserved as written.