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


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First Line: He sang I'm talking through a hat that isn't mine. It's
Last Line: Small, treated themselves like garbage. Sanctus detrius redivivus
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians


He sang I'm talking through a hat that isn't mine. It's
Jackson Pollock's, given him by Pollock's brother, Charles,
and there is blood on the rim, his own not Pollock's. This talisman
was lost in a bar somewhere, anywhere in America, and is
worn now by a dump-picker who found it among the garbage.
Appropriate! As both of them, one so great and the other so
small, treated themselves like garbage. sanctus detrius redivivus





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