Can anyone tell me the meaning of this poem?

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*Kitty*

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"Lighthouse in the Night"

The sky a black sphere,
the sea a black disk.

The lighthouse opens
its solar fan on the coast.

Spinning endlessly at night,
whom is it searching for

when the mortal heart
looks for me in the chest?

Look at the black rock
where it is nailed down.

A crow digs endlessly
but no longer bleeds.



by:Alfonsina Storni
 
Much of this later work is marked by despair, largely brought about by her battle with breast cancer. The poems are involved, intellectual, and highly stylized, and they lack the simplicity and passion of her early work. Knowing that she was incurably ill, Storni committed suicide in 1938. A volume containing all her poetry, Obra poetica completa (“Complete Poetical Works”), was published in 1961.

The sky a black sphere,
the sea a black disk.

The lighthouse opens
its solar fan on the coast.

Spinning endlessly at night,
whom is it searching for
Is all of this mortality searching for her? or her searching for her own immoartality?

when the mortal heart
looks for me in the chest?
Is this referecnce to the cancer inside her? or contemplation of suicide?

Look at the black rock
where it is nailed down.
Is this reference to a Grave Marker? or some form of martyrdom?

A crow digs endlessly
but no longer bleeds
Bird feeding on the bloodless eyes of a corpse?

She had breast cancer and she was suicidal.
The poem is about death and the contemplation of suicide.
 
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