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DEAD DEER by JAMES HARRISON

Poet Analysis

First Line: AMID PALE GREEN MILKWEED, WILD CLOVER
Last Line: CRUEL LUXURIANCE.
Subject(s): DEATH; DECAY; DEER; DEAD, THE; ROT; DECADENCE;
Amid pale green milkweed, wild clover,
a rotted deer
curled, shaglike,
after a winter so cold
the trees split open.
I think she couldn't keep up with
the others (they had no place
to go) and her food,
frozen grass and twigs,
wouldn't carry her weight.

Now from bony sockets,
she stares out on this
cruel luxuriance.



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