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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GHAZALS: 11, by JAMES HARRISON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The brain opens the hand which touches that spot, clinically Last Line: Freeze in arid cold watch the reindeer watch the northern lights. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Cold; Hunting; Imaginary Conversations; Hunters | |||
The brain opens the hand which touches that spot, clinically soft, a member raises from his chair and insists upon his rights. In some eye bank a cornea is frozen in liquid nitrogen. One day my love I'll see your body from the left side of my face. Half the team, a Belgian mare, was huge though weak. She died convulsively from the 80-volt prod, still harnessed to her mate. Alvin C. shot the last wolf in the Judith Basin after a four-year hunt, raising a new breed of hounds to help. Dressed out 90 lbs. When it rains I want to go north into the taiga, and before I freeze in arid cold watch the reindeer watch the northern lights. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE LAMENT OF QUARRY by LEONIE ADAMS KILLDEER by KENNETH SLADE ALLING THE YOUNG FOWLER THAT MISTOOK HIS GAME by PHILIP AYRES A POEM ABOUT THE HOUNDS AND THE HARES by LISEL MUELLER THE IDEA OF BALANCE IS TO BE FOUND IN HERONS AND LOONS by JAMES HARRISON |
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