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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE THREAD, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER
First Line: Long after the used senses abdicate
Last Line: As once new fervor, hunger, lust or fear.
Subject(s): Memory; Pain; Suffering; Misery
First Line: Long after the used senses abdicate
Last Line: As once new fervor, hunger, lust or fear.
Subject(s): Memory; Pain; Suffering; Misery
Long after the used senses abdicate
The flickering scene of the mind,
Leaving their tangled wires burned black;
And after memory, usurper, good to hate
Tinkering with what is slack
And dead, takes up his bare estate,
Keeping all windows blind—
Still in the withered fibre of the brain,
Lives a bright nerve, a cable freshly fed,
The sensitive high-voltage wire of pain,
A humming, brutal thread,
That signals what worn flesh now reads as clear,
As once new fervor, hunger, lust or fear.
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