Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE COAST OF OKLAHOMA, by CHRIS FORHAN First Line: Oh to stroll the oklahoma coast Last Line: And shame indianapolis' grand canals. Subject(s): Oklahoma | ||||||||
Oh to stroll the Oklahoma coast now that the hollyhock is in bloom and my love has returned and her hair's in my tub and her smudged socks clutter the bedroom floor and her Subaru leaks its indiscreet spot of oil in the driveway. All my ripe desire is plucked -- I'm left to think of what I cannot have and feel its lack like an intoxicant. Oh to pack a big picnic and explore the brackish shallow tidepools of the Tulsa Gulf, where the skittery sandpiper makes his earnest rounds, and gulls wheel and pivot overhead, where after a rain the waves are grayish-blue and the jagged Alps of Iowa rise in the north like a kept promise. I miss already that pebbled stretch of sand I've never seen, my love hunched against some salty gust as she tests the water with a naked foot. Oh Oklahoma shore, the mere thought of you is enough to render charmless the Hanging Gardens of Utah and shame Indianapolis' grand canals. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LINES WRITTEN IN DEJECTION, OKLAHOMA by GREGORY ORR DRIVING IN OKLAHOMA by CARTER REVARD A TRIBUTE TO WILL ROGERS AND WILEY POST by ROSETTA THORSON BEACHLER OKLAHOMA by DAISY LEMON COLDIRON LAST ECSTASY by ALETHA CALDWELL CONNER OKLAHOMA by ELIZABETH WILLIAMS COSGROVE SONG OF THE COMANCHE COUNTRY by NEVILLE PEACE WIND SONG; OKLAHOMA ANNIVERSARY, APRIL 22 by ZOE AGNES STRATTON TILGHMAN SPECIAL PLEADING by SIDNEY LANIER |
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