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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AFTER IKKYU: 24, by JAMES HARRISON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: The monk is eighty-seven. There's no fat
Last Line: Tremble when she gives him a tin cup of water.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Monks
First Line: The monk is eighty-seven. There's no fat
Last Line: Tremble when she gives him a tin cup of water.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Monks
The monk is eighty-seven. There's no fat
left on his feet to defend against stones.
He forgot his hat, larger in recent years.
By a creek he sees a woman he saw fifty summers
before, somehow still a girl to him. Once again his hands
tremble when she gives him a tin cup of water.
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