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HITCHHIKING by JAMES HARRISON

Poet Analysis

First Line: AWAKE: / THE WHITE HAND OF
Last Line: BY A MIRACULOUS HATRED.
Subject(s): FIRE; HITCHHIKERS; TRAGEDY;
Awake:
the white hand of
my benefactor
drums on the seat
between us.
The world had become orange
in the rearview mirror
of a '55 Pontiac.
The road was covered with bugs
and mist coiled around
great house-sized rocks
and in the distance buried them.
Village. Passed three limp
gas stations then one
whose windows exploded with fire.
My mouth was filled with plastic cups.
Final item:
breakfast, nurtured
by a miraculous hatred.



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