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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WHITE, by JAMES HARRISON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: To move into it again, as it was
Last Line: To look again at the reflection of her huge eye in water.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Cows; Water; White (color)
First Line: To move into it again, as it was
Last Line: To look again at the reflection of her huge eye in water.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Cows; Water; White (color)
To move into it again, as it was, the cows rattling in black stalls,
lowing beneath the wind, the elm against the barn, thrashing
there as shadow, all loose boards creaking, the moon drawn,
pushed rolling white by wind and fat, bone white snow-and-flour white white
white
moving into the puddle by the lilacs, whiter there, rippling white
beneath dark green twisting petals.
To be silvered by her as the barn,
the grass, the manure pile, the lilacs,
to look again at the reflection of her huge eye in water.
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