Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GEO-BESTIARY: 28, by JAMES HARRISON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How can I be alone when these brain cells Last Line: Around their bright cosmic bodies. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Despair; Money | ||||||||
How can I be alone when these brain cells chat to me their million messages a minute. But sitting there in the ordinary trance that is any mammal's birthright, say on a desert boulder or northern stump, a riverbank, we can imitate a barrel cactus, a hemlock tree, the water that flows through time as surely as ourselves. The mind loses its distant machine-gun patter, becomes a frog's occasional croak. A trout's last jump in the dark, a horned owl's occasional hoot, or in the desert alone at night the voiceless stars light my primate fingers that I lift up to curl around their bright cosmic bodies. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE TRAVELLER by RANDALL JARRELL ART VS. TRADE by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON THE IDEA OF BALANCE IS TO BE FOUND IN HERONS AND LOONS by JAMES HARRISON |
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