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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LISLE'S RIVER, by JAMES HARRISON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dust followed our car like a dry brown cloud Last Line: What joy have you had since, that equaled this? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Canoes & Canoeing; Happiness; Memory; Rivers; Water; Joy; Delight | |||
Dust followed our car like a dry brown cloud. At the river we swam, then in the canoe passed downstream toward Manton; the current carried us through cedar swamps, hot fields of marsh grass where deer watched us and the killdeer shrieked. We were at home in a thing that passes. And that night, camped on a bluff, we ate eggs and ham and three small trout; we drank too much whiskey and pushed a burning stump down the bank - it cast hurling shadows, leaves silvered and darkened, the crash and hiss woke up a thousand birds. Now, tell me, other than lying between some woman's legs, what joy have you had since, that equaled this? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE STUDY OF HAPPINESS by KENNETH KOCH SO MUCH HAPPINESS by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE CROWD CONDITIONS by JOHN ASHBERY I WILL NOT BE CLAIMED by MARVIN BELL THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#21): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN'S HAPPINESS by MARVIN BELL THE IDEA OF BALANCE IS TO BE FOUND IN HERONS AND LOONS by JAMES HARRISON |
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