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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PAST SILVER DURANGO OVER MEXIC SIERRA WRINKLES, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Westward mother-mountains drift pacific, green sloped Subject(s): United States; America | |||
Westward Mother-mountains drift Pacific, green-sloped canyons vaster than Mexico City without roads under cloud-flowers bearing tiny shadow-blossoms on vegetable peaks- red riverbeds snake thru paradises without electricity Huichol or Tarahumara solitudes hectare'd irregular, antpaths to rocky plateaux, hollows for lone indian humility, hand-ploughed mountainside patches- naked white cloud-fronds floating silent over silent green earth-crags. O vast meccas of manlessness, Bright cloud-brains tower'd in blue space up to the Sun with rainbow garlands over white water-gas, O tree-furred body defenseless thru clear air, visible green breast of America! vaster than man the Mother Mountains manifest nakedness greater than all the bomb Bacteria ever invented Impregnable cloud-cities adrift & dissolving no History, white rain-ships alighted in Zenith Blue Ocean- No ports or capitals to the horizon, emerald mesas ridged in??nite-budded where rivers and ants gather garbage man left behind in the Valley of Mexico- Iron'll rust under living tree roots & soak back underground to feed the sensitive tendrils of Ego covering mountains of granite green mossed unconscious. Heaven & ocean mirror their azure, horizon lost in yellowed spectrum-mist- Baja California Blue water lies flat to the brown armpit of United States, River's course muddies the delta with teardrops washed dusty from Utah- Green irrigated farm squares in desert- & the dung colored gas, brown haze of labor near Los Angeles risen the height of Sierras - gray smog drifts thru low mountain passes, city invisible. Floating armchairs descend from sky in sunlight, rocking back & forth in polluted fields of air | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...JULY FOURTH BY THE OCEAN by ROBINSON JEFFERS SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC by ROBINSON JEFFERS SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC by ROBINSON JEFFERS WATCH THE LIGHTS FADE by ROBINSON JEFFERS AFTER TENNYSON by AMBROSE BIERCE |
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