Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FACE, by JEAN TOOMER


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First Line: Hair -- / silver-gray
Subject(s): Faces


Hair -
silver-gray,
like streams of stars,
Brows -
recurved canoes
quivered by the ripples blown by pain,
Her eyes-
mist of tears
condensing on the flesh below
And her channeled muscles
are cluster grapes of sorrow
purple in the evening sun
nearly ripe for worms.





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