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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A REDOLENCE FOR NIMS, by JAMES HARRISON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O triple sob - turned forty Last Line: Back my heart alive. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Aging; Self-pity | |||
O triple sob -- turned forty at midnight -- body at dawn booze-soddened but hopeful, knowing that the only thing to remember is dreams. Dead clear zero, Sunday afternoon in an attic of a closed resort on Lake Michigan with one lone duck riding the diminishing swells of yesterday's storm against the snowy cliffs of North Manitou: Whom are we to love? How many and what for? My heart's gone to sea for years. This is a prayer, plaint, wish, howl of void beneath breastbone. Dreams, soul chasers, bring back my heart alive. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...NEW AGE AT AIRPORT MESA by NORMAN DUBIE SELF-PORTRAIT AT TWENTY by GREGORY ORR TICHBORNE'S ELEGY, WRITTEN IN THE TOWER BEFORE HIS EXECUTION by CHIDIOCK TICHBORNE BIOTHANATOS by JOSEPH BEAUMONT MELANCHOLIE by JOSEPH BEAUMONT THE RELAPSE by JOSEPH BEAUMONT PASCAL'S CHARACTER OF HIMSELF by JOHN BYROM THE IDEA OF BALANCE IS TO BE FOUND IN HERONS AND LOONS by JAMES HARRISON |
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