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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FOR SUSTENANCE, by COE BOTKIN First Line: The momentum of arms and legs Last Line: Teaches its young to sing. Subject(s): Women | |||
The momentum of arms and legs In design of parade, Carries hot bodies of exhausted men, Searching for a golden promise; Columns doubling to a hill Crying for sustenance. Over the hill and far away they pass Spattering mud on white cottages. The rain taps a message -- Presage of sustenance. A woman, listening, Arises from her sleeping child. (He must know no gun.) Cool her face that feels the rain. She plans a play-pen Where the tiger-lilies run A border of gold; and then Beyond her garden-bush, She makes support For trumpet-vines that cling Where a grosbeak Teaches its young to sing. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ARISTOTLE TO PHYLLIS by JOHN HOLLANDER A WOMAN'S DELUSION by SUSAN HOWE JULIA TUTWILER STATE PRISON FOR WOMEN by ANDREW HUDGINS THE WOMEN ON CYTHAERON by ROBINSON JEFFERS TOMORROW by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD LADIES FOR DINNER, SAIPAN by KENNETH KOCH GOODBYE TO TOLERANCE by DENISE LEVERTOV |
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