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GHAZALS: 44 by JAMES HARRISON

Poet Analysis

First Line: THAT'S A DARK TROUGH WE'D HIDE IN. SAID HIS
Last Line: AND MAY YOU STRIKE HARD ENOUGH TO SEE NOTHING AT ALL.
Subject(s): IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS;

That's a dark trough we'd hide in. Said his
sleep without @3frisson@1 in a meadow beyond Jupiter.

It is no baronet of earth to stretch to -- flags
planted will be only flags where no wind is.

Hang me rather there or the prez's jowl on a stick
when we piss on the moon as a wolf does NNW of Kobuk.

I'll be south on the Bitterroot while you're up there
and when you land I'll fire a solitary shot at moonface.

I wish you ill's ills, a heavy thumb & slow hands
and may you strike hard enough to see nothing at all.



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