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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EAST SIDE MOVING PICTURE THEATRE - SUNDAY, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An old woman rubs her eyes Last Line: Were standing before their last heaven. Subject(s): Heaven; Lower East Side, New York City; Motion Pictures; Prayer; Sabbath; Paradise; Movies; Cinema; Sunday | |||
An old woman rubs her eyes As though she were stroking children back to life. A slender Jewish boy whose forehead Is tall, and like a wind-marked wall, Restlessly waits while leaping prayers Clash their light-cymbals within his eyes. And a little hunchbacked girl Straightens her back with a slow-pulling smile. (I am afraid to look at her again.) Then the blurred, tawdry pictures rush across the scene, And I hear a swishing intake of breath, As though some band of shy rigid spirits Were standing before their last heaven. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DAT GAL O' MINE by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON SUNDAY: NEW GUINEA by KARL SHAPIRO SABBATHS: 2001 by WENDELL BERRY SUNDAYSUNDAYSUNDAYSUNDAYSUNDAY by PAUL BLACKBURN THE SABBATH OF THE SOUL by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD DEATH (1) by MAXWELL BODENHEIM |
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