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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GHAZALS: 18, by JAMES HARRISON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I told the dark-haired girl to come down out of the apple Last Line: My brain. We'll go to judah to wait for the apocalypse. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Art & Artists; Dreams; Imaginary Conversations; Nightmares | |||
I told the dark-haired girl to come down out of the apple tree and take her medicine. In a dream I told her so. We're going to have to do something about the night. The tissue won't restore itself in the dark. I feel safe only at noon. Waking. Out by the shed, their home, the Chicano cherry pickers sing hymns on a hot morning, three guitars and a concertina. We don't need dime-store surrealists buying objects to write about or all this up-against-the-wall nonsense in Art News. Even in the wilderness, in Hell Roaring Creek Basin, in this grizzly kingdom, I fear stepping into a hidden missile silo. My friend has become crippled, back wrenched into an "S" like my brain. We'll go to Judah to wait for the Apocalypse. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...VARIATIONS: 14 by CONRAD AIKEN VARIATIONS: 18 by CONRAD AIKEN LIVE IT THROUGH by DAVID IGNATOW A DREAM OF GAMES by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN THE DREAM OF WAKING by RANDALL JARRELL APOLOGY FOR BAD DREAMS by ROBINSON JEFFERS GIVE YOUR WISH LIGHT by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE IDEA OF BALANCE IS TO BE FOUND IN HERONS AND LOONS by JAMES HARRISON |
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