Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, NOON, by JAMES HARRISON


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First Line: Spring: despondency / fall: despair
Last Line: Of the barn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Weather


Spring: despondency,
fall: despair,
onset of winter
a light rain in the heart
the pony tethered to the telephone
pole day after day until he's eaten
the circle, moved to another pole,
another circle: winter never deepens
but falls dead upon the ground,
body of the sky whirled
in gray gusts:
from Manitoba stretched brains
of north; heat for heart, head,
in smallest things -- dry socks,
strange breasts, an ounce of sun
glittering above the blue shadows
of the barn.





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