Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, BIOGRAPHY, by IDELLA PURNELL


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First Line: Gregory had a proud mother
Last Line: I think he was reaching for the stars in the lake.
Subject(s): Dreams; Mothers; Stars; Suicide; Nightmares


Gregory had a proud mother
Whose head, he often said, was in the stars.
She dreamed poetry all day long,
And sang when she washed the dishes.
Gregory came to Mexico,
And substituted tequila for his stars
An Indian girl followed,
And the last stars fled.
But some remembrance
Induced him, in occasional sober states,
To write proud letters to his mother.
One day I found him with a telegram,
Sitting beneath the banana-trees.
He cursed the pigs and the climate,
And said his mother was coming.
At sunset
The lake was pink in the black rushes.
That night Gregory drowned himself.
I think he was reaching for the stars in the lake.





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