Classic and Contemporary Poetry
COBRA, by JAMES HARRISON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What are these nightmares Last Line: Then slept in the cool dirt under the granary. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Dreams; Fear; Nightmares | ||||||||
What are these nightmares, so wildly colored? We're in every movie we see, even in our sleep. Not that we can become what we fear most but that we can't resist ourselves. The grizzly attack; after that divorce and standing outside the school with a rifle so they can't take my daughter Anna. By god! Long ago in Kenya where I examined the grass closely before I sat down to a poisonous lunch, I worried about cobras. When going insane I worried about cobra venom in Major Grey's Chutney. Simple as that. Then in overnight sleep I become a lordly cobra, feeling the pasture grass at high noon glide beneath my stomach. I watched the house with my head arched above the weeds, then slept in the cool dirt under the granary. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...VARIATIONS: 14 by CONRAD AIKEN VARIATIONS: 18 by CONRAD AIKEN LIVE IT THROUGH by DAVID IGNATOW A DREAM OF GAMES by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN THE DREAM OF WAKING by RANDALL JARRELL APOLOGY FOR BAD DREAMS by ROBINSON JEFFERS GIVE YOUR WISH LIGHT by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE IDEA OF BALANCE IS TO BE FOUND IN HERONS AND LOONS by JAMES HARRISON |
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