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GHAZALS: 18 by JAMES HARRISON

Poet Analysis

First Line: I TOLD THE DARK-HAIRED GIRL TO COME DOWN OUT OF THE APPLE
Last Line: MY BRAIN. WE'LL GO TO JUDAH TO WAIT FOR THE APOCALYPSE.
Subject(s): ART & ARTISTS; DREAMS; IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS; NIGHTMARES;

I told the dark-haired girl to come down out of the apple
tree and take her medicine. In a dream I told her so.

We're going to have to do something about the night. The tissue
won't restore itself in the dark. I feel safe only at noon.

Waking. Out by the shed, their home, the Chicano cherry pickers
sing hymns on a hot morning, three guitars and a concertina.

We don't need dime-store surrealists buying objects to write
about or all this up-against-the-wall nonsense in @3Art News@1.

Even in the wilderness, in Hell Roaring Creek Basin, in this
grizzly kingdom, I fear stepping into a hidden missile silo.

My friend has become crippled, back wrenched into an "S" like
my brain. We'll go to Judah to wait for the Apocalypse.



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