Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MY FIRST DAY AS A PAINTER, by JAMES HARRISON


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First Line: Things to paint
Last Line: Streams of human eggs!
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Paintings & Painters


Things to paint:
my dog (yellow),
nude women,
dead coyote with gray whiskers,
nude women,
a tree full of crows,
nude women,
the self in the mirror,
nude women,
a favorite cloud,
nude women,
a worn-out scalpel,
nude women,
dead friends,
nude women ages 14-80 (12-82),
call me wherever you are at noon
in the glory of noon light,
bring your dogs and birds,
everybody is welcome:
nude women spinning in godlike whirls
creating each other in endless
streams of human eggs!





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