Hay-making seems synonymous with love-making.

Hay-making - Gillian Clarke

Use of the second person you creates a sense of a shared, almost universal rite of passage which underlies a tone of deeply personal reminiscence as suggested by our at the end of the poem. The softening impact of the poets assonance compounds an image of recumbent peace and tranquillity, as if the tension of the harvest is now completely dissipated so that the rural environment lies symbolically exhausted and satisfied. The entire poem deploys a strikingly euphemistic tone. A sultry image suggestive of natural passion.

You know the hays in when gates hang slack in the lanes. These hot nights the fallen fields lie open under the moons clean sheets.

The homebound road is sweet with the liquors of the grasses, air green with the pastels of stirred hayfields.

As if nature itself has been sexualised, exposed and yet renewed in the process of reaping and harvesting her fertility. Suggests a sensual, exotic atmosphere, redolent of drunken but consensual excess. There is absolutely no hint of violence or anxiety in Clarkes image of natural consummation. The word stirred has a euphemistic implication that natural passions have been aroused. An image of renewal, rebirth or reinvigoration associated with the rural cycle of nature and the countryside. An emphatic reference almost a command suggesting how the ritual of harvesting is literally and metaphorically inspirational - essential to the continuation of life.

Down at Fron Felen in the loaded barn new bales displace stale darkness. Breathe. Remember finding first kittens, first love in the scratch of the hay, our sandals filled with seeds.

Reminiscences of innocence. The scratch of the hay creates a physical link between rural nature and the act of human love-making.
The poets use of the first person plural we alludes back to her opening use of the second person singular you at the start of the poem. The fertility of nature is echoed in the act of love-making which is a unifying force.

Open, natural, unconfined.

Evocative of natural procreation and insemination which is the natural purpose for love-making.