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FACE by JEAN TOOMER

Poet Analysis

First Line: HAIR -- / SILVER-GRAY
Last Line: nearly ripe for worms
Subject(s): FACES;

Hair -
silver-gray,
like streams of stars,
Brows -
recurved canoes
quivered by the ripples blown by pain,
Her eyes-
mist of tears
condensing on the flesh below
And her channeled muscles
are cluster grapes of sorrow
purple in the evening sun
nearly ripe for worms.



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