Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MEN WITH SMALL HEADS, by THOMAS LUX Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And women with small heads Subject(s): Heads; Size & Shape; Height | ||||||||
Men with Small Heads and women with small heads were everywhere in my hometown when I was six. Two men standing on the corner: small heads. Small head: a woman leans to look in her mailbox. Then there'd be some normal bodies, normal heads. Not everyone, in other words, in my hometown had small heads but many did, enough that I'd say to my mother, father: why does that man have a small head? I was glad my parents' heads were normal-sized. They were glad I (mostly) didn't ask why a person with a small head had a small head within earshot of that person. Apparently these small heads did not appear so small to them. They had my eyes checked first. They took some x-rays of my skull. Did I have migraines? Did have pinhead fears, dreams? Perhaps it was the angle through the windshield glass? The local Dr. leaning over me with his penlight probing my retina-his head was huge and the hairs on the back of his hand were crossed like swords. Nothing wrong with my eyes or my brain that he could tell but the heads I swore were small were not, they were just your average heads, circa 1953, just your average heads, in America. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...EPIGRAM ON MISS DAVIES; LINES WRITTEN ON A WINDOW AT MOFFAT INN by ROBERT BURNS ON SIM AND SIMON by CHARLES COTTON GIANTS by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES UPON T.R., A VERY LITTLE MAN, BUT EXCELLENTLY LEARNED by JOHN HALL (1627-1656) LITTLE AND LOUD by ROBERT HERRICK SHORT AND LONG BOTH LIKES by ROBERT HERRICK BIG DOG, LITTLE DOG by WYATT PRUNTY |
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