the 7th palace standing at the gate & angry war like strong harsh fearful furious the height of mountains brightness of the peaks with bows strung stood before them sharpened swords in hands the play of lightnings out of eye balls balls of fire from their nostrils torches coals from mouths wore helmets crowns & iron coats spears javelins width of their arms these keepers of the gates o these with horses they would ride now stand side of the stables troughs of fire coals of juniper they eat o fire of the mangers drops like 40 bushels in one mouthful horses mouths each mouth 3 stables of Caesarea each stable was the width of Caesar's Gate & rivers also fire ran beside the stables horses drank from like fullness of the water works in Kidron cistern that contains the rain that ever fell down all Jerusalem Used with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, P.O. Box 271, Port Townsend, WA 98368-0271, www.cc.press.org | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SURFACES AND MASKS; 1 by CLARENCE MAJOR SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: TOM MERRITT by EDGAR LEE MASTERS THE AWAKENING by EDGAR LEE MASTERS REINFORCEMENTS by MARIANNE MOORE THINGS ARE WHAT THEY SEEM by MARIANNE MOORE THE VIRTUOSO; IN IMITATION OF SPENCER'S STYLE AND STANZA by MARK AKENSIDE |