Hello i needed help with a poem called "Dubbel zoet"?

Question

hi my name is robyn and i am having troble with this poem called
“Dubbel zoet” by J. Rhodes i can't seem to get the total meaning and the meter for this poem if you could help me here it is below:

DUBBEL ZOET





In your lying mouth

I didn't know I'd become

aniseblack gum. Instead,

I thought your teeth were my own mortar,

that I would grind myself clean

against you.



Last night, under the Meyer lemon,

I found two cat-dragged wings.

I buried them,

salt and sage and cedar,

a red ribbon from your Christmas box.



Now the crow's head is there,

its milked-over eye

wanting nothing, its

muddy beak closed.

I find a spine, too,

a licorice whip with one feather.

I water the lemon tree,

this accidental rest. (Please e-mail me back with any info)

Answer 1

starting with the title--
DUBBEL ZOET is a dutch sweet. (first 3 links)

other things that i noticed

under the small ornament plant
she found only the winds of a bird
the cat had killed
she buried them,
in salt, sage, cedar---all forms of preservatives used in ancient times
and tied the bundle with a red ribbon

the crow--milked-over eye. the crow's eye is blind, dead
wanting nothing---crows are know thiefs of shinny object
muddy beak closed --mouth fill with dirt
i find the spine -the cat had eaten the bird
and left a blacken twisted twig of a spine--picked clean of eatables from the cat who ate everything and twisted the spine
with one feather--where did the rest of the feathers go.
with the packet of sage, ceder, she buries the crow
in the place of the accident...the crow at rest