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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GHAZALS: 26, by JAMES HARRISON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: What will I do with seven billion cubic feet of clouds
Last Line: House and car and parents. I'm going to greenland at dawn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Absence; Moving & Movers; Relationships; Separation; Isolation
First Line: What will I do with seven billion cubic feet of clouds
Last Line: House and car and parents. I'm going to greenland at dawn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Absence; Moving & Movers; Relationships; Separation; Isolation
What will I do with seven billion cubic feet of clouds
in my head? I want to be wise and dispense it for quarters.
All these push-ups are making me a muscular fatman. Love would
make me lean and burning. Love. Sorry the elevator's full.
She was zeroed in on by creeps and forgot my meaningful glances
from the door. But then I'm walleyed and wear used capes.
She was built entirely of makeup, greasepaint all the way through
like a billiard ball is a billiard ball beneath its hard skin.
We'll have to leave this place in favor of where the sun
is cold when seen at all, bones rust, it rains all day.
The cat is mine and so is the dog. You take the orchard,
house and car and parents. I'm going to Greenland at dawn.
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