Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, GHAZALS: 22, by JAMES HARRISON


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First Line: Maps. Maps. Maps. Venezuela, keewanaw, iceland open up
Last Line: Another target in chicago, tremulous bull's-eye for hog fever.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations; Maps; Travel; Journeys; Trips


Maps. Maps. Maps. Venezuela, Keewanaw, Iceland open up
unfolding and when I get to them they'll look like maps.

New pilgrims everywhere won't visit tombs, need living
monuments to live again. But there are only tombs to visit.

They left her in the rain tied to the water with cobwebs,
stars stuck like burrs to her hair. I found her by her wailing.

It's obvious I'll never go to Petersburg and Akhmadulina
has married another in scorn of my worship of her picture.

You're not fooling yourself -- if you weren't a coward you'd be
another target in Chicago, tremulous bull's-eye for hog fever.





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