|
|
|
Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE CHATHAM GHAZAL, by JAMES HARRISON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: It is the lamp on the kitchen table
Last Line: I also bury all of the skins of thirty-seven years.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Aging
First Line: It is the lamp on the kitchen table
Last Line: I also bury all of the skins of thirty-seven years.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Aging
It is the lamp on the kitchen table
well after midnight saying nothing but light.
Here are a list of ten million measurements.
You may keep them. Or throw them away.
A strange warm day when November has forgotten
to be November. Birds form shrill clouds.
Phototropiques. We emerge upward from liquid.
See the invisible husks we've left behind called memories.
The press wonders how we drink so much poison and stay
alive. The antidote is chance, mobility, sleeplessness.
They've killed another cow. With the mountain of guts
I also bury all of the skins of thirty-seven years.
Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!
Other Poems of Interest...
AFTER THE GENTLE POET KOBAYASHI ISSA by ROBERT HASS
MEMORY AS A HEARING AID by TONY HOAGLAND
AMOROSA AND COMPANY by CONRAD AIKEN
GRAY WEATHER by ROBINSON JEFFERS
FROM THE SPANISH by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON
THE IDEA OF BALANCE IS TO BE FOUND IN HERONS AND LOONS by JAMES HARRISON