Classic and Contemporary Poetry

ELIZABETH'S WAR WITH THE CHRISTMAS BEAR: 1601, by NORMAN DUBIE                Poet's Biography
First Line: The bears are kept by hundreds within fences, are fed cracked / eggs
Last Line: Every inch of you, a terrible vision, not bear, but virgin!
Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Bones; Christmas; Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Nativity, The