Adam, just being a rib was enough.Just being inside Adam’s body, near his heart, enough
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/246606/jewish/The-Story-of-Adam-and-Eve-in-the-Bible.htm?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIpvnXltnV4AIVWB6tBh3ZuAhkEAAYASAAEgJnBPD_BwE
The story of Adam and Eve is the story of life itself. The original creation of humans and their sins. Is the poet trying to compare the origin of birds to the origin of mankind.
to point to the sky, say bird, and wait for something to sing.
https://www.ancient.eu/Yin_and_Yang/
In the end, we don't know if the outcome is positive or negative. This reminds me of yin and yang, searching for tranquility and harmony.
Eve, surrounded by peonies,
The peonies represent Eve as a trick of beauty--beautiful, glowing and bright.
enough
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m75-812-sj4
Repetition is a device often used for emphasis, urgency, or sometime rhythm, like in this example of Edgar Allen Poe's The Bells.
But then enough was no longer enough.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/learn/glossary-terms/volta
This part seems to be the Volta, or "the turn" in the poem that takes the reader in a new direction.
Birds
Birds are symbolic of freedom and lifting up of the spirit.
where peacocks lived
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDvFdj-pFMc The male is the only one who is a peacock. The female is called a peahen. The peacock is known to be majestic and noble.
Avenida de los Muertos
The Avenida de los Muertos means avenue of the dead. This is an image of the Pyramid of the Sun and the Avenue of the Dead in Teotihuacan.
Huitzilopchtli
Huitzilopochtli was considered a supreme ruler, god of the sun and war. www.ancient.eu/Huitzilopochtli/
cenotes
This is an image of a cenote, which is commonly known as a sinkhole. It is found in Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico and sometimes used in ancient Maya for sacrificial offerings.
They fed him crushed diamonds and fire.
The son's diamonds and fire are really drugs.
my parents walking behind like effigies in a procession he might burn to the ground at any moment.
This part is a really dark explicit image of the parents and their blind love for this son.
From pig balls, From the ferocity of pig driven to holiness,
Juxtaposition of pig and lion, with the pig being described with "ferocity," but a pig is really inferior to a lion.
They Lion grow.
Use of repetition of They Lion grow at the end of each stanza.