At 02:57 PM 9/24/2003 -0400, you wrote:

>I don't mean that the narrator thinks that his male body is inhabiting
>(??using??) a woman's body. I meant that he is worrying to himself that he
>has used
>her (i.e., mistreated, acted selfishly, been involved with her only for sex,
>etc.). There's no notion of "gender shifting" in my post.


   Steve --

  I just can't get by the idea that he didn't leave her; she left him. He
wants what he can't or doesn't know how to have ("weave, weave the sunlight
in your hair."). Lines 1 through 16 are how he would have had it, now how
he did have it. Line 17 is how it  happened. She turns and leaves him, and
THAT (and what he rightly senses he has lost) is what compels his
imagination, etc.

  Ken A.