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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THINGS, by KATHARINE MCCLUSKEY
First Line: Things are very intriguing!
Last Line: Still crunching!
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The
First Line: Things are very intriguing!
Last Line: Still crunching!
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The
Things are very intriguing!
In time of illness,
When death has peered
Boldly above the horizon,
A woman is seduced to fold her laces,
Or slip gay strings of garlanding beads
Blue, amber, green,
Cooling her fingers.
We still have monkey-tricks
Of carrying off Things into corners,
And gloating there,
Though lightnings crack
The mirroring sky,
And thunders yell—unheeded oracles!
Manicuring-tools make a nice diversion
When death is stalking near a human-dwelling,
Or else has ravaged and passed by,
Still crunching!
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