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This poem really interested me because of my gross natural curiosity. When I first read it, I thought of The Road when the boy and the man find the people in the cellar of the house. "Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it." made me think that when you have something you should do with it what you can. This man's heart is keeping him alive. It not only allows him to "love" but it also nourishes his body. When he claims it is "bitter" but he still enjoys it, it makes me think that even though our hearts may not be the purest or sweetest things in the world, they are still ours and there are still things we can enjoy and love about them. No one has a "heart of gold" because we all hate things we shouldn't and judge people before we know them and have biases, but in the end we know that it is still our own heart. The only thing I could think to compare it to would be a child who is misbehaving, and even though the parents are still upset, they love the child. They cannot help, but love the child. They know there is better within the child and hope the "better" will show itself one day, but it is still there child. They still love it and want to help it. They may have wanted a window seat, but they aren't complaining about the isle. The natural human can hate and be cruel and rude and dishonest and at the end of the day they still very much "like" their heart because it is theirs. It is all they have. It is their own and no one else has a heart like it. The author has one short line which engages the reader because it is like a cliff hanger. It makes them want to know more about "In the desert". The short line is followed by two or three longer lines adding detail to the short line. So the short line is the hook and the longer lines are like the door shutting behind you. There really is no way to back out of it at that point because you've been trapped by your interest in the next line. All in all, I really enjoyed this poem a lot. I thought it was extremely interestingly written and it has a very interesting theme.