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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PITCH O' PINE SONNETS: 2. QUILLS, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poet's Biography
First Line: Si's temper was barbed-quilled as a hedgehog's tail
Last Line: He hurled one at the quills, and crushed si's head.
Subject(s): Feathers; Hedgehogs
First Line: Si's temper was barbed-quilled as a hedgehog's tail
Last Line: He hurled one at the quills, and crushed si's head.
Subject(s): Feathers; Hedgehogs
Si's temper was barbed-quilled as a hedgehog's tail
And threw quills when he went to get a drink
And found but tepid water; on the brink
Of the well-curb they fell clanking on the pail.
For weeks the quills would fly if a dry-rot rail
Was hooked from the pasture fence, and left a chink
For jumping cows to munch on corn. The swink
Of hunting hens' nests was a quill-gybed flail.
Si's wife used tweezers: eased her mind's grim tread
By yank of quills from flesh that silenced groans.
Si's son they worked in, on and around his bones
With pain-jabbed waves of hot and hateful dread,
Until one day quite worn out dragging stones
He hurled one at the quills, and crushed Si's head.
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