Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WHO'S THERE?, by J. CLARK GRAHAM


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First Line: Wind in reeds
Last Line: Death.
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The


Wind in reeds,
No more.
Dusk. A light invades
From shore.
I press the glowing butt
Of my last cigarette carefully
Against my heel . . . Silly --
Water everywhere.
And yet --
It might advertise mortality,
And me
To those gleams, more alive,
Free
Than I, just beneath my hand.
And I would see
If I can steal a fuller breath
From the reeds and waters
Before they sense
The stranger and his mind,
Foolishly revolving
Death.





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