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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DECEPTION PASS; FOR JUDY AND MARK KAWASAKI, by KAREN SWENSON Poet's Biography First Line: It is very high here Last Line: Lingers upon this thigh of tide. Subject(s): Islands; Nature | |||
It is very high here where the Pacific limbs blue between the islands among rocks scabbed with gray lichens. A gray crochet of lichens, the humble one-celled union of land and sea - alga and fungus - works stone. There is a photograph of the world, taken from outer space, that resembles this rock, a thing tender in its clasp of cloud and continent. Their gentle chisel of growth casts the rock to earth circle by circle, an expanding scab of life, and all their progeny are sand, as if the earth were an ever-after hourglass with this frail lace the only supplier of time. This pale marriage clasps the eternal and makes it tick, makes forever green hours of trees forever half-grown in the Pacific wind where the serene shadow of a gull lingers upon this thigh of tide. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...INTERRUPTED MEDITATION by ROBERT HASS TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: HOME by LYN HEJINIAN WRITING IS AN AID TO MEMORY: 17 by LYN HEJINIAN LET US GATHER IN A FLOURISHING WAY by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA IN MICHAEL ROBINS?ÇÖS CLASS MINUS ONE by HICOK. BOB BREADTH. CIRCLE. DESERT. MONARCH. MONTH. WISDOM by JOHN HOLLANDER VARIATIONS: 16 by CONRAD AIKEN UNHOLY SONNET 13 by MARK JARMAN |
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