Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SIXTH DAY, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER


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SIXTH DAY, by                    
First Line: Straight to the rabbit's nest
Last Line: But of the sixth day's veiled amenities.
Subject(s): Babies; Parents; Infants; Parenthood


Straight to the rabbit's nest,
Hidden in bleached grass, blanketed with fur,
Went the child's hand,
And lightly burrowing under
The barricade of draggled leaf and burr,
Committed plunder.

The fingers found and brought into the chill,
A hairless creature panting under skin
So new to air, it still
Wore the cramped posture of the dark within
The body where it grew—
A secret, shivering thing,
That in its black sleep knew
The novelty of wrong and suffering.

Who seeks to win the mother rabbit's blind
Unguarded spawn to a sense of ease,
Must learn his manners, not of human kind,
But of the Sixth Day's veiled amenities.





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