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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SURFACE AND STRUCTURE: BONAVENTURE HOTEL, LOS ANGELES, by KAREN SWENSON Poet's Biography First Line: Four black glass silos Last Line: Broken from a necklace. Subject(s): Decay; Hotels; Los Angeles; Rot; Decadence; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses | |||
Four black glass silos store grains of white lights waterfalling six levels of balconies, outlining wired leaps of reindeer stags that arch the lobby pool fragrant with chlorine. Outside, elevators, black scarabs, crawl up the shiny walls above pale lassos of freeway lights. Someday when the freeways crack up, when the scarabs lie on their backs in bowels of cable, the silos, wind-turning dust devils round their bobbins, will house kite and hawk in their honeycombs. Lizards flickering edges of balconies will leave in the pool dry patterns of their vertebrae exquisite as carved ivory broken from a necklace. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LOOKING FOR THE GULF MOTEL by RICHARD BLANCO WHAT THE MAGDALENE SAW by TIMOTHY LIU REMOVED AT THE MOMENT OF PERFECTION by TIMOTHY LIU MARRY AT A HOTEL, ANNUL ?ÇÖEM by HARRYETTE MULLEN THE KEEPER OF THE DEAD HOTEL by AGHA SHAHID ALI IN GEORGETOWN; HOLIDAY INN, WASHINGTON, D.C. by HAYDEN CARRUTH OUTSIDE ROOM SIX by LYNN EMANUEL |
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