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GHAZALS: 11 by JAMES HARRISON

Poet Analysis

First Line: THE BRAIN OPENS THE HAND WHICH TOUCHES THAT SPOT, CLINICALLY
Last Line: FREEZE IN ARID COLD WATCH THE REINDEER WATCH THE NORTHERN LIGHTS.
Subject(s): COLD; HUNTING; IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS; HUNTERS;

The brain opens the hand which touches that spot, clinically
soft, a member raises from his chair and insists upon his rights.

In some eye bank a cornea is frozen in liquid nitrogen. One day
my love I'll see your body from the left side of my face.

Half the team, a Belgian mare, was huge though weak. She died
convulsively from the 80-volt prod, still harnessed to her mate.

Alvin C. shot the last wolf in the Judith Basin after a four-year
hunt, raising a new breed of hounds to help. Dressed out 90 lbs.

When it rains I want to go north into the taiga, and before I
freeze in arid cold watch the reindeer watch the northern lights.



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