Things Said and Also Silent in June Jordan's "Love Poems"

I am often drawn to poetry with provocative imagery - images that are vivid, and hold a clear meaning for the author, but are so vivid that I am able to interpret them freely for myself. For example, in Jordan's "After All is Said and Done" she writes:
"Maybe you thought I would forget
about the sunrise
how the moon stayed in the morning
time a lower lip
your partly open partly spoken
mouth" (79).
This introductory moment conjures, for me, a morning at the end of the relationship - where things remain said and unsaid (half-said?) in the mouth of the lover the poet is writing about. It also speaks to the passing of time in these, particularly unsaid, moments. But this time is not lost - not forgotten - but it too becomes unsaid. It is the moments we do not speak of, the ones we let sit, unspoken on our lower lips that come back to haunt us at the end of a relationship. And yet, this is just my interpretation. What do other people think of this moment? Jordan's imagery is cleary, but also mystifying, leaving the poem accessible to anyone who wishes to engage with it. Moreover, in the whole of Love Poems, Jordan is often trying to address both that which is unsaid and said between two lovers. I think this is an admirable task for poetry, not only because it is often with the distance we take when attempting to write that we can work out the effects of these things said and also unsaid, but also because poetry reaches a larger audience...creates community...and (perhaps) encourages that community of readers to consider the silence and speech in their own lives.

I was also struck by "On a New Year's Eve." At once the poem seems to be telling us that "all things are dear/ that disappear" (88), meaning that the past year is dear to us, for now it is gone, a thing only remembered, celebrated, unable to be done over. This deferential remembrance is a beautiful sentiment for year's end, but I also like how the poem discusses "it is this time/ that matters" (85), reminding us not to become bound by our remembrance, to embrace the present. Jordan's poems strive for a type of balance - both in there formal construction and also in the messages they communicate. Does anyone disagree - does anyone see her writing otherwise, as chaotic or asymmetrical?