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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NEEDLE THREADER IN NEED OF A NEEDLE, by DARA WIER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tincture of morphine, tincture of so-forth blue hazarding Last Line: To wear, nearby a llama stepping into its pajamas Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse | |||
High standard cursive, careful, no inappropriate wavering. Scale, measure, formal requirements, and intimations. Each word has a soul, and this ink is that famous temple in which the soul endures -- no, swells out to fill each figure's thought the temple delineates -- no, bloats up like the also famous proud sails so that each word demands a surface, yes, smooth as silk over a soul, as any holy body of water before it's struck by a breeze or from below by a current come from around the world or the moon or a catfish's tail. Each stroke so purely still, moving nonetheless, so it appears it is the whole word which moves, and each word solemnly goes on its progress toward the next word. Maybe not; one suspects a handwriting such as this does not want to put two and two together, maybe not two words together unless it thinks it should see to it that each word is discretely "beautiful" in fact, so beautiful one understands were it not for her handwriting maintaining its poise the horror would be too much to bear; the cruelty begins to appear as the end of the session draws near. One sees through every vowel as through an endless tunnel after which nothing appears, through the tall, lithe letter a ferocity of arcs and cuts, vast wounds sutured with a thousand stitches, and a few stitches so proudly set they seem to be slashes, disastrously understood to direct their attention straight to the infliction of infinite pain, great pains, oh, such great pains have been gone through for her handwriting to be so beautiful. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...GREEN SEES THINGS IN WAVES by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER WITH A BOTTLE OF BLUE NUN TO ALL MY FRIENDS by MADELINE DEFREES NEAR THE BRIDGE OF SAINT-CLOUD; AFTER ROUSSEAU by NORMAN DUBIE THE BUS STOPPED IN FIELDS OF MISDEMEANOR by NORMAN DUBIE THAT VAGRANT MISTRAL VEXING THE SUN: A FAR CRY by DARA WIER |
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