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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AFTER IKKYU: 35, by JAMES HARRISON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Everywhere I go I study the scars on earth's face
Last Line: Gold & copper to buy the horse that died, the woman who left.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The
First Line: Everywhere I go I study the scars on earth's face
Last Line: Gold & copper to buy the horse that died, the woman who left.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The
Everywhere I go I study the scars on earth's face,
including rivers and lakes. I'm not playing God
but assessing intent. In the Patagonia Mountains
you think, "small mines, pathetic deaths." In Cabeza Prieta
men boiled in their own blood, ground temperature 170°
Contrails of earthen scar-tissue stink of sulfur.
Gold & copper to buy the horse that died, the woman who left.
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