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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOVE SONG AFTER ABSENCE, by C. E. SHUFORD First Line: The days when you were gone Last Line: Cascade of fountained stars.... Alternate Author Name(s): Shuford, Gene Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation | |||
the days when you were gone climbed down into the sewers felt the haunches of hell's horses now world is all rolling earth and sky the hunched mountains exploding upward into power lightning in electric lacework on the sky there are trees in heaven blue cornflowers tassel the air across the room the white oval of your face like the mirror of earth where one finds only his own image the body sways an ear of golden corn in the wind bucket climbs to the rim of the well drink here at my mouth from earth deep the pain the slow torture of living oil soaked to the rotten core and now a torch flaming in the night while the faces rush by big eyes staring from the houses, streets, fields buses body-packed and at the windows the gape-mouthed let us lie on the mountain we are no different from sunlight old winds howl among the stones from these loins seeds of eternity muscled hills spasmed breath of sky flesh came from them from curtained air spilled into the towns behind the walls cascade of fountained stars.... | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE EVENING OF THE MIND by DONALD JUSTICE CHRISTMAS AWAY FROM HOME by JANE KENYON THE PROBLEM by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES WHEN A WOMAN LOVES A MAN by DAVID LEHMAN |
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