Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON


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First Line: First sighting: she was up in the apple tree with one leg hanging
Last Line: I thought her bare feet were cloven a bit too obviously.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians


First sighting:
She was up in the apple tree with one leg hanging
and the other drawn under her, sidesaddle on the branch.
Her face was bare of features and being an artist of sorts
I filled them in. It was deadly serious and I wanted
to ask someone what she was doing so nudely up in the apple
tree behind the barn, but had no one to ask and the mouth
I'd designed was too fresh on her face to open; so I stared
up and noticed she didn't lack the truly important features of
her sex but any desire was constrained by fear. So I sat
in the grass and dozed from what I'd been drinking that afternoon
waking to hear her sing no mantra but some ancient lute song,
and seeing her again as she dropped from the tree to my side
I thought her bare feet were cloven a bit too obviously.





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