Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, GHAZALS: 20, by JAMES HARRISON


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First Line: Some sort of rag of pure language, no dictums but a bell
Last Line: Be needed, the sibyl will return as an undiscovered lover.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Despair; Dreams; Language; Travel; Nightmares; Words; Vocabulary; Journeys; Trips


Some sort of rag of pure language, no dictums but a bell
sound over clear water, beginning day no. 245 of a good year.

The faces made out of leaves and hidden within them, faces
that don't want to be discovered or given names by anyone.

There was a virgin out walking the night during the plague when
the wolves entered Avila for carrion. The first took her neck.

The ninth month when everything is expected of me and nothing
can be told - September when I sit and watch the summer die.

She knelt while I looked out the car window at a mountain
(Emigrant Peak). We need girls and mountains frequently.

If I can clean up my brain, perhaps a stick of dynamite will
be needed, the Sibyl will return as an undiscovered lover.





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