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A SEQUENCE OF WOMEN: 2 by JAMES HARRISON

Poet Analysis

First Line: SHE SITS ON THE BED
Last Line: UNLIKE ANY OTHER.
Subject(s): DESIRE; LOVE - EROTIC; SELF-DOUBT; SEX;

She sits on the bed,
breasts slack,
watching a curl of dust
float through a ray of sun,
drift down to a corner.
So brief this meeting
with a strange child --
Do I want to be remembered?
Only as a mare might know
the body of her rider,
the pressure of legs
unlike any other.



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