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GHAZALS: 31 by JAMES HARRISON

Poet Analysis

First Line: I COULDN'T WALK ACROSS THAT BRIDGE IN HANNIBAL
Last Line: STREET FALLING SOFTLY ON OUR HEADS, THE DREAD DOPE AGAIN.
Subject(s): ABSENCE; TRAVEL; VIOLENCE; SEPARATION; ISOLATION; JOURNEYS; TRIPS;

I couldn't walk across that bridge in Hannibal
at night. I was carried in a Nash Ambassador.

On Gough Street the cars went overhead. I counted
two thousand or more one night before I slept.

She hit him in the face with her high-heeled shoe
as he scrambled around the floor getting away.

What am I going to do about the mist and the canning
factory in San Jose where I loaded green beans all night?

Billions of green beans in the Hanging Gardens off Green
Street falling softly on our heads, the dread dope again.



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