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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
YUCCAS ON A JUNE NIGHT, by MARCUS Z. LYTLE
First Line: The parched, blue hush that cloaks a summer night
Last Line: To aim his life on more sidereal slant.
Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Yucca Plants
First Line: The parched, blue hush that cloaks a summer night
Last Line: To aim his life on more sidereal slant.
Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Yucca Plants
The parched, blue hush that cloaks a summer night --
When great black hills appear to count each gleam
Of fragile stars in gauzy clouds that stream
Above the brush like powdered dolomite --
Is wavered by a thrust of waxy white.
An earth-grown, torching plume unfolds, to seem
Like high accomplishments that disesteem
Not only yucca stalks, but shafts of light.
These wisps of silver temples on a wand
Are pouring from a spine-choked desert plant
That sacrifices all its years beyond
To enter this self-slaying free from cant.
It genders dreams that make a man respond
To aim his life on more sidereal slant.
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