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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GRANDMOTHER, by JOE HORRELL
First Line: She sits with heavy face and grimly knits
Last Line: And the lucretian atom-dance gone mad.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers
First Line: She sits with heavy face and grimly knits
Last Line: And the lucretian atom-dance gone mad.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers
She sits with heavy face and grimly knits
but bobbins soon play out: the fresh sod
is plowed again and she smells it and
recalls grandfather gathered up to God.
The unrelenting chair creaks and her door
stands ajar upon the void felicity
which I glut with cubed extravagance:
she abides with her economized sphericity.
Librating needle never burst her shell
and have her twitch with the neurotic spool:
for she is the grave dynastic nucleus
while I vibrate like a concentric fool.
O tristful lady, yielding heart clutched
by wistaria, rag-carpet woven sad,
your quanta last: you are eluding time
and the Lucretian atom-dance gone mad.
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