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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GHAZALS: 16, by JAMES HARRISON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: It is an hour before dawn and even prophets sleep
Last Line: Geometric convulsions, no doubt her civic theater experience.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Dreams; Travel; Nightmares; Journeys; Trips
First Line: It is an hour before dawn and even prophets sleep
Last Line: Geometric convulsions, no doubt her civic theater experience.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Dreams; Travel; Nightmares; Journeys; Trips
It is an hour before dawn and even prophets sleep
on their beds of gravel. Dreams of fish & hemlines.
The scissors moves across the paper and through
the beard. It doesn't know enough or when to stop.
The bear tires of his bicycle but he's strapped on
with straps of silver and gold straps inlaid with scalps.
We are imperturbable as deer whose ancestors saw the last
man and passed on the sweet knowledge by shitting on graves.
Let us arrange to meet sometime in transit, we'll all take
the same train perhaps, Cendrars's Express or the defunct Wabash.
Her swoon was officially interminable with unconvincing
geometric convulsions, no doubt her civic theater experience.
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