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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GHAZALS: 10, by JAMES HARRISON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Praise me at durkheim fair where I've never been, hurling
Last Line: And vanessa redgrave in my calvinist fantasies. Don't go away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Death; Desire; Fantasy; Memory; Rape; Dead, The
First Line: Praise me at durkheim fair where I've never been, hurling
Last Line: And vanessa redgrave in my calvinist fantasies. Don't go away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Death; Desire; Fantasy; Memory; Rape; Dead, The
Praise me at Durkheim Fair where I've never been, hurling
grenade wursts at those who killed my uncle back in 1944.
Nothing is forgiven. The hurt child is thirty-one years old
and the girl in the pale blue dress walks out with another.
Where love lies. In the crawl space under the back porch
thinking of the aunt seen shedding her black bathing suit.
That girl was rended by the rapist. I'll send her a healing
sonnet in heaven. Forgive us. Forgive us. Forgive us.
The moon I saw through her legs beneath the cherry tree had
no footprints on it and a thigh easily blocked out its light.
Lauren Hutton has replaced Norma Jean, Ava Gardner, Lee Remick
and Vanessa Redgrave in my Calvinist fantasies. Don't go away.
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