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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PHENOMENA, by ANDREW FRISARDI First Line: I mistook that hummingbird Subject(s): Hummingbirds; Transience; Impermanence | |||
I mistook that hummingbird for a dragonfly at first metallic green stopping and starting beside the porch then zoning in on bushes and birdbath fast as life is so short as not to outlast the falling of an apple make up your mind Andrew pray or fall asleep but pray to whom petition the warm green light by lips are blades of grass to praise the wind nothing else to do really but grow tired and dream ache in the fingerjoints and shine like dull metal. First published in The Kenyon Review, Volume 22 #2 Spring 2000. www.kenyonreview.org/roth | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FROM THE SPANISH by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON CHAMBER MUSIC: 17 by JAMES JOYCE SOUTHERN GOTHIC by DONALD JUSTICE THE BEACH IN AUGUST by WELDON KEES THE MAN SPLITTING WOOD IN THE DAYBREAK by GALWAY KINNELL THE SEEKONK WOODS by GALWAY KINNELL |
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