What Does "The Sick Rose" Mean?

Hard and fast today-- this might be bumpy

“Everything eats and is eaten,” sings the woman. Her name is Adrienne Lenker, and she’s the most talented songwriter in the world right now. The song is called “Ingydar.” She’s singing about her divorce from Buck Meeks, I think:

You are as far from me as memory

With fixtures fracture varyingly

The juice of dark cherries cover my skin

Six years in, no…