Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FOUR MATRICES: 3. HOME, by JAMES HARRISON



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First Line: Cores. Knots. A vortex around which nothing swirls
Last Line: Cold and stillness, horses and roots, unmoving brain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Cold; Despair


Cores. Knots. A vortex around which nothing swirls
or moves. Here then. Where I am now and can't seem
to move, some perfect cripple; a suspended brain.
It was cold, it is cold. It will be cold. And dry.
A root hits tablerock, curls upward, winds around
itself until it becomes a noose. Obvious! Obvious!
All the better. Simple things: just now a horse walked
past the window. I was naked when I carried the dying dog
to the couch. And weeping with alcohol and rock and
cold and stillness, horses and roots, unmoving brain.





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