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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WHEN HE EMERGED, by MARGARET AHO First Line: Exposing through a bottomless | |||
exposing through a bottomless foxhole the kitchen carpet carpet glue linoleum linoleum adhesive ply wood sub floor boards above the cellar ceiling cellar floor geo pitch and plates he'd somehow augered through and stood there on his hind legs, drawing on his gloves: chrome and citron -- I didn't know him. He held a ferule. It was blue for music. He was virgulate himself, leaning toward me: a rust-red slash between worlds. Copyright © Margaret Aho. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...EYE-SHAPED, MOUTH-SHAPED by MARGARET AHO I DREAM I'M LEAVING by MARGARET AHO STREET-CRIES: 2. THE SHIP OF EARTH by SIDNEY LANIER THE CRANES OF IBYCUS by EMMA LAZARUS TWO TREES IN KATHMANDU by KAREN SWENSON THE YOUTH WITH RED-GOLD HAIR by EDITH SITWELL NORTHERN FARMER, OLD STYLE by ALFRED TENNYSON BEGGAR TO BEGGAR CRIED by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS IN WILTSHIRE; SUGGESTED BY POINTS OF SIMILARITY WITH THE SOMME COUNTRY by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN HINC LACHRIMAE; OR THE AUTHOR TO AURORA: 31 by WILLIAM BOSWORTH |
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