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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GHAZALS: 3, by JAMES HARRISON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: The alfalfa was sweet and damp in fields where shepherds
Last Line: Two walls of bone, brain veering, bucking in fatal velocity?
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Farm Life; Fights; Imaginary Conversations; Agriculture; Farmers
First Line: The alfalfa was sweet and damp in fields where shepherds
Last Line: Two walls of bone, brain veering, bucking in fatal velocity?
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Farm Life; Fights; Imaginary Conversations; Agriculture; Farmers
The alfalfa was sweet and damp in fields where shepherds
lay once and rams strutted and Indians left signs of war.
He harnesses the horses drawing the wagon of wheat toward
the road, ground froze, an inch of sifting snow around their feet.
She forks the hay into the mow, in winter is a hired girl
in town and is always tired when she gets up for school.
Asleep again between peach rows, drunk at midmorning and something
conclusive is needed, a tooth pulled, a fistfight, a girl.
Would any god come down from where and end a small war between
two walls of bone, brain veering, bucking in fatal velocity?
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