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SEQUENCE: 3 by JAMES HARRISON

Poet Analysis

First Line: THE DEAD HALOED IN GLADIOLUS
Last Line: SNAPS ITS NECK, HORSE COWERED BEFORE CROP.
Subject(s): ANIMALS; DEATH; DEAD, THE;
The dead haloed in gladiolus
and electric organs,
those impossible hurts, trepanations,
the left eye punctured with glass;
he'll go to Canada with his dog,
a truly loved and loving creature --
fish in the water, bear in his den.
Not fox shrinking before foxhound
snaps its neck, horse cowered before crop.



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