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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GHAZALS: 19, by JAMES HARRISON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: We were much saddened by bill knott's death
Last Line: Behind them to feed on the disturbed insects.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Death; Nature; Relationships; Dead, The
First Line: We were much saddened by bill knott's death
Last Line: Behind them to feed on the disturbed insects.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Death; Nature; Relationships; Dead, The
We were much saddened by Bill Knott's death.
When he reemerged as a hospital orderly we were encouraged.
Sad thoughts of different cuts of meat and how I own no
cattle and am not a rancher with a freezer full of prime beef.
A pure plump dove sits on the wire as if two wings emerged
from a russet pear, head tucked into the sleeping fruit.
Your new romance is full of nails hidden from the saw's teeth,
a board under which a coral snake waits for a child's hand.
I don't want to die in a foreign land and was only in one
once, England, where I felt near death in the Cotswolds.
The cattle walked in the shallow water and birds flew
behind them to feed on the disturbed insects.
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