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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CONTRA MORTEM: THE VILLAGE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twilight drivels down the mountain. There below Last Line: In the hostel its eyes too dead for pity Subject(s): Animals; Extinct Animals | |||
Twilight drivels down the mountain There below in slowly gathering shadow the lights come on lighted windows vague and yellow and very old The town is flecked with light except in the deep hollow where the graves sink down Hallowed and narrow the steeple rises under a copper fish swimming in final roselight The dutch elm bettle carries his little burden from tree to tree Somewhere a dog barks petulantly across a steel guitar Ah it is all extraordinarily nostalgic as people find who come from the city to fret beneath the police magistrate's famour hatrack that was the last caribou and now is a pity. Used with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, P.O. Box 271, Port Townsend, WA 98368-0271, www.cc.press.org | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CAVE PAINTING by HAYDEN CARRUTH A HUNDRED A DAY by DENISE LEVERTOV THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 7 by KENNETH REXROTH FOR A COMING EXTINCTION by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN NATURAL WORLD: 1 by JAMES HARRISON HUNDRED A DAY by DENISE LEVERTOV I'VE NEVER SEEN SUCH A REAL HARD TIME BEFORE' by HAYDEN CARRUTH THE WORLD AS WILL AND REPRESENTATION' by HAYDEN CARRUTH A POST-IMPRESSIONIST SUSURRATION FOR THE FIRST OF NOVEMBER by HAYDEN CARRUTH |
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