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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
STUDY FOR A GEOGRAPHICAL TRAIL; 9. CHICAGO, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: It was summer at the edge of town
First Line: It was summer at the edge of town
It was summer at the edge of town.
Two men shot at me.
Bullets flew through the park.
A woman fell.
People gathered around her
and ripped her clothes off, tearing
at her dying. Stretched out
on the ground her sobbing shook
her pink pants as the grass turned
from bright green to red.
Used with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, P.O. Box 271, Port Townsend, WA
98368-0271, www.cc.press.org
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