Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, GHAZALS: 42, by JAMES HARRISON


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First Line: New music might, that sucks men down in howls
Last Line: The drowned man's discovered scowling under the harbor's ice.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


New music might, that sucks men down in howls
at sea, please us if trapped in the inner ear.

When rising I knew there was a cock in that dream
where it shouldn't have been I confess I confess.

Say there this elbow tips glass upward, heat rolls
down in burns, say hallow this life hid under liquid.

Late in the morning Jesus ate his second breakfast,
walked out at five years, drove his first nail into a tree.

Say the monkey's jaw torn open by howling, say after
the drowned man's discovered scowling under the harbor's ice.





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