Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON


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First Line: And my puppy is over her kidney infection, diagnosed
Last Line: Let her wounds become my own.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians


And my puppy is over her kidney infection, diagnosed
as chronic & fatal. Saved from the gas chamber. I salute
the technology of antibiotics. All dogs are in particular
as was Christopher Smart's cat Jeoffry. He said drunkenly
near dawn O let her sleep with us during her last days and
let her wounds become my own.





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