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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GHAZALS: 43, by JAMES HARRISON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Ghazal in fear there might not be another
Last Line: Smell from here as dead men might after war.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Death; Fear; Dead, The
First Line: Ghazal in fear there might not be another
Last Line: Smell from here as dead men might after war.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Death; Fear; Dead, The
Ghazal in fear there might not be another
to talk into fine white ash after another blooms.
He dies from it over and over; Duncan has
his own earth to walk through. Let us borrow it.
Mary is Spanish and from her heart comes forth
a pieta of withered leather, all bawling bulls.
Stand in the wine of it, the clear cool gold
of this morning and let your lips open now.
The fish on the beach that the blackbirds eat
smell from here as dead men might after war.
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