Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HIGH PLAINS RAG, by JAMES GALVIN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But like remorse Last Line: It can never stop . Subject(s): Grass; Prairies; Plains | ||||||||
But like remorse the prairie grass seeks emptiness, increases in its sleep, gets even with the fragrant, stoic sage. Oh, it is witless and blind. It cannot remember what it was doing with all that wind. It waits for a thimbleful of rain. It populates such distances it must be brave but prairie grass bends down in sorrow to be so lost, and like remorse feels so nearly endless it cannot ever stop. 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...NO COMPLAINTS; FOR ROBERT GRENIER by ANSELM HOLLO POINT OF ROCKS, TEXAS by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE PRAIRIE HOUSES by BARBARA GUEST AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE PRAIRIES by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT TO MAKE A PRAIRIE by EMILY DICKINSON THE PRAIRIE-GRASS DIVIDING by WALT WHITMAN SYMPHONY OF THE SOIL by EVA K. ANGLESBURG A DISCRETE LOVE POEM by JAMES GALVIN |
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