Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, GHAZALS: 34, by JAMES HARRISON


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First Line: When she walked on her hands and knees in the arab
Last Line: I see myself upside down clawing the floor.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Change; Dreams; Nightmares


When she walked on her hands and knees in the Arab
chamber the fly rod, flies, the river became extinct.

When I fall out of the sky upon you again I'll
feather at the last moment and come in feet first.

There are rotted apples in the clover beneath the fog
and mice invisibly beneath the apples eat them.

There is not enough music. the modal chord I carried
around for weeks is lost for want of an instrument.

In the eye of the turtle and the goldfish and the dog
I see myself upside down clawing the floor.





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