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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AWAKE, by JAMES HARRISON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Limp with night fears: hellebore, wolfsbane
Last Line: Sections for burning.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Despair; Fear; Insomnia; Sleeplessness
First Line: Limp with night fears: hellebore, wolfsbane
Last Line: Sections for burning.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Despair; Fear; Insomnia; Sleeplessness
Limp with night fears: hellebore, wolfsbane,
Marlowe is daggered, fire, volts, African vipers,
the grizzly the horses sensed, the rattlesnake
by the mailbox -- how he struck at thrown rocks,
black water, framed by police, wanton wife,
I'm a bad poet broke and broken at thirty-two,
a renter, shot by mistake, airplanes and trains,
half-mast hard-ons, a poisoned earth, sun will
go out, car break down in a blizzard,
my animals die, fistfights, alcohol, caskets,
the hammerhead gliding under the boat near
Loggerhead Key, my soul, my heart, my brain,
my life so interminably struck with an ax
as wet wood splints bluntly, mauled into
sections for burning.
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