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GHAZALS: 13 by JAMES HARRISON

Poet Analysis

First Line: THE NIGHT IS THIN AND WATERY; FISH IN THE AIR
Last Line: HIM TO DEATH. WITHIN MINUTES DEATH CAN COME BY BEES.
Subject(s): DEATH; MEDICINE; NIGHT; SEX; DEAD, THE; DRUGS, PRESCRIPTION; BEDTIME;

The night is thin and watery; fish in the air
and moonglint off her necklace of human teeth.

Bring O bring back my Bonnie and I'll return yours
with interest and exhaustion. I'm stuck between those legs.

Dangers of drugs: out in the swamp's middle he's stoned
and a bear hound mammothly threatens. Dazed with fright.

Marcia I won't go to Paris - too free with your body -
it's mine it's mine it's mine not just everyone's.

Now in this natal month Christ must be in some distant
nebula. O come down right now and be with us.

In the hole he fell in, a well pit, yellow jackets stung
him to death. Within minutes death can come by bees.



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