Classic and Contemporary Poetry
JUSTICE, by JAMES GALVIN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All around the house huge elms and oaks Subject(s): Cicadas; Elm Trees; Justice; Oak Trees | ||||||||
All around the house huge elms and oaks Billow up like green thunderheads In heat that brings cicadas to a boil. You might think no one's died for a while. The air is still Until the tousled willow stirs From a deeply sexual nap, And a slight wind Flips through a paperback Left open near the open window. From the way it skims I'd say This breeze has no interest in the text. It's looking for some tiny flowers And four-leaf clovers it would like to have back. So I take down a notebook I know to be full Of such flowers and clovers My mother gathered during her life Of trying to make the ephemeral last, And open it near the open window For the wind to leaf through And want what it takes. Used with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, P.O. Box 271, Port Townsend, WA 98368-0271, www.cc.press.org | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DRUNKEN WINTER by JOSEPH CERAVOLO THE BRAVE OLD OAK by HENRY FOTHERGILL CHORLEY THE HAUNTED OAK by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR THE SOWER AND HIS SEED by WILLIAM EDWARD HARTPOLE LECKY ELIOT'S OAK; SONNET by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW A DISCRETE LOVE POEM by JAMES GALVIN |
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