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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GHAZALS: 17, by JAMES HARRISON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: O atlanta, roseate dawn, the clodhoppers, hillbillies rednecks
Last Line: 150 lbs. I weigh 200 and was not allowed into her blue fuck room.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Dreams; Hunting; Southern States; Nightmares; Hunters; South (u.s.)
First Line: O atlanta, roseate dawn, the clodhoppers, hillbillies rednecks
Last Line: 150 lbs. I weigh 200 and was not allowed into her blue fuck room.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Dreams; Hunting; Southern States; Nightmares; Hunters; South (u.s.)
O Atlanta, roseate dawn, the clodhoppers, hillbillies, rednecks,
drunken dreams of murdering blacks; the gin mills still.
Our fried chicken and Key lime pie and rickets. To drain all
your swamps and touch a match, Seminoles forbidden drink.
Save the dogs everywhere. In France by actual count, Count
Blah Blah shot 885 pheasants in one day, his personal record.
There was a story of a lost child who remained lost & starved
to death hiding in a hollow log from both animals and searchers.
Cuba is off there beyond the Tortugas, forever invisible; Isle
of Pines where Crane wept, collecting tons of starfish and eels.
Her love was committed to horses and poets weighing less than
150 lbs. I weigh 200 and was not allowed into her Blue Fuck Room.
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