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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IVY-GROWTH, by LORETTA COWARD
First Line: Ivy grows artfully to the sun
Last Line: And cancerous death of trees.
Subject(s): Ivy
First Line: Ivy grows artfully to the sun
Last Line: And cancerous death of trees.
Subject(s): Ivy
Ivy grows artfully to the sun
with crafty lies,
gnaws characters of stone,
bends stoic trees.
No breath along the ground,
no half-light through the sieve
of smothering alien leaves
will satisfy; it gains
by sinuous slow murder
in attenuated shock
of aggravating tentacles
which lacerate live rock.
Malignant forest-fungus
dyed autumn-red with blood
where constricting serpentine
arms embrace the wood,
this socially accepted vine
by cruel diplomacies
absorbs its life from wounded stone
and cancerous death of trees.
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