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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SEAL, by GEORGE O'NEIL Poet's Biography
First Line: Beauty's a stallion plunging in your mind
Last Line: Neigh in the flowery chasm.
Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Horses
First Line: Beauty's a stallion plunging in your mind
Last Line: Neigh in the flowery chasm.
Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Horses
Beauty's a stallion plunging in your mind
With hoofs of ice and spine of steel.
He sweats hard crystal and his mane is twined
On prongs he cannot feel.
He rears and staggers on a glacial crag,
His tail spread out all briary, gold,
With jaws hung splintered on a starry gag
And stony haunches cold.
His ribs are trellis for a vine of light
That cracks and shatters when he plunges,
With shins flung back above his belly tight,
He bounds and rakes and lunges.
Beauty's a charger vaulting up a void
With veins all checked in rigid spasm.
He hears no timid foal, with entrails cloyed,
Neigh in the flowery chasm.
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