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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GHAZALS: 27, by JAMES HARRISON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: I want a sign, a heraldic bird, or even an angel at midnight
Last Line: A parade, a suite at the plaza, a new silver-plated revolver.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Change; Desire; Despair
First Line: I want a sign, a heraldic bird, or even an angel at midnight
Last Line: A parade, a suite at the plaza, a new silver-plated revolver.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Change; Desire; Despair
I want a sign, a heraldic bird, or even an angel at midnight
or a plane ticket to Alexandria, a room full of good dreams.
This won't do; farmlife with chickens clucking in the barnyard,
lambs, cows, vicious horses kicking when I bite their necks.
The woman carved of ice was commissioned by certain unknown
parties and lasted into a March thaw, tits turning to water.
Phone call. That strange cowboy who pinned a button to the boy's
fly near the jukebox -- well last night he shot his mom.
Arrested, taken in as it were for having a purple fundament,
a brain full of grotesqueries, a mouth exploding with red lies.
Hops a plane to NYC riding on the wing through a thunderstorm,
a parade, a suite at the Plaza, a new silver-plated revolver.
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