Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WHEN HE EMERGED, by MARGARET AHO First Line: Exposing through a bottomless | ||||||||
exposing through a bottomless foxhole the kitchen carpet carpet glue linoleum linoleum adhesive ply wood sub floor boards above the cellar ceiling cellar floor geo pitch and plates he'd somehow augered through and stood there on his hind legs, drawing on his gloves: chrome and citron -- I didn't know him. He held a ferule. It was blue for music. He was virgulate himself, leaning toward me: a rust-red slash between worlds. Copyright © Margaret Aho. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...EYE-SHAPED, MOUTH-SHAPED by MARGARET AHO I DREAM I'M LEAVING by MARGARET AHO SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 1. AT TEA by THOMAS HARDY ABOU BEN ADHEM by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT PSALM OF THOSE WHO GO FORTH BEFORE DAYLIGHT by CARL SANDBURG TO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON ON HEARING HIM MISPRAISED by MATTHEW ARNOLD |
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