Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LIKE SHOWER OVER THE HEART..., by JANE MILLER Poet's Biography Last Line: It shall never, happy soul, winter Subject(s): Winter | ||||||||
Like shower over the heart muscle and, after rain, summer. Peaches and rose. A steam bath for the earth, Chinese massage, long silver pins drawn the great distance of daylight from handclouds into trees standing on their heads, roots. Waterwheel over the terraced vertebrae, earthface rosfi tanning toward the many the long the most generous hours of light that today rain, yet light, the lightest gray, gray apple-green, gray lilac, white. Solstice of pins, of verticals, into the haunches of horsehills. Tongues in puddles. Hours in twos and threes, hours in elongated seconds, thick sentences taut and thinning into words and finally breaking into alphabet, moments without shadow, the long spaces between lights in a countryside going to sleep in even daylight from the rain, and the different lamps meeting in the evening making gold the gray, buttering the houses in small swatches as if they were children holding out their pieces of bread, watching the last light perforate the darkness and not admit to it, no it shall never, happy soul, winter. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LOOKING EAST IN THE WINTER by JOHN HOLLANDER WINTER DISTANCES by FANNY HOWE WINTER FORECAST by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN AT WINTER'S EDGE by JUDY JORDAN CHAMBER MUSIC: 34 by JAMES JOYCE A WINTER OF LOVE LETTERS AND A MORNING PRAYER: 5 by JANE MILLER A WINTER OF LOVE LETTERS AND A MORNING PRAYER: 7 by JANE MILLER |
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