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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EXCURSION TO RAVENNA OF A YOUNG GIRL WITH PARENTS: AFTERNOON, by ROSSANA OMBRES Poet's Biography First Line: Among the drinking doves, galla placidia | |||
Among the drinking doves, Galla Placidia, where the ankle-socks end, the grottoes' common coolness, sitting enjoying the moment... The pavement barely sprinkled, father says, can bring out the paratyphoid bacillus, and also watermelon for that matter as well as the shell that you suck out the mollusk with the foot women must be kept pure the world's infection is wrapped in chiffon (he had not become a doctor because he threw up in anatomy class). The big church in the meadow the hen you touch the hard feathers and embalmed virgins rise, the watermelons weep with all their seeds, a conscious earphone blares inside: "It is a sin that they're left alone with no more seed." The crucifixes flail and the butterflies of Aunt Bettina from Buenos Aires pierced with a pin dangling a soilable color Apollinare "in Classe," and the desire for the notebook returns opened tothe icon's page, (Confirmations are beautiful in Vienna, Angela, they decorate their cars with feathers) "Theodoric," tomorrow, while touching her fever sore, "had a red bath." Used by permission of Story Line Press. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BALLAD OF NOAH'S DAUGHTER by ROSSANA OMBRES ENSARING FLOWER OF PSALMS by ROSSANA OMBRES EXCURSION TO RAVENNA OF A YOUNG GIRL WITH PARENTS: MORNING by ROSSANA OMBRES STRANGE ADVENTURE by ROSSANA OMBRES MY AIN COUNTREE by ALLAN CUNNINGHAM THE FIRST THANKSGIVING DAY [1621] by MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON |
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