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CLAY BISON IN A CAVE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poet's Biography First Line: Clay-tan, eyeless Subject(s): Caves; Paintings & Painters; Paleontology; Caverns | ||||||||
Clay-tan, eyeless, voiceless, even in a sense weightless, in motion yet motionless still for centuries and centuries, stuck in this motion of climbing, perhaps lost, these two Paleolithic bison, heads lifted, strained back to the black endless sky, as they climb toward sunny grass. Which black sky? Which grass? Rock-step by rock-step, up they go, on up and up. The black sky at the top of the cave. The grass that is always more a promise in a dream than that sweet kiss blown by watercolored wind. Used with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, P.O. Box 271, Port Townsend, WA 98368-0271, www.cc.press.org | Other Poems of Interest...ELEGIES FOR THE OCHER DEER ON THE WALLS AT LASCAUX by NORMAN DUBIE COUGNAC, 2007 by CLAYTON ESHLEMAN THE SWEETWATER CAVERNS by KIMIKO HAHN INSCRIPTIONS: 1. FOR A GROTTO by MARK AKENSIDE AJANTA: 1. THE JOURNEY by MURIEL RUKEYSER AJANTA: 2. THE CAVE by MURIEL RUKEYSER AJANTA: 3. LES TENDRESSES BESTIALES by MURIEL RUKEYSER AJANTA: 4. BLACK BLOOD by MURIEL RUKEYSER |
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