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NOON by JAMES HARRISON

Poet Analysis

First Line: SPRING: DESPONDENCY / FALL: DESPAIR
Last Line: OF THE BARN.
Subject(s): WEATHER;
Spring: despondency,
fall: despair,
onset of winter
a light rain in the heart
the pony tethered to the telephone
pole day after day until he's eaten
the circle, moved to another pole,
another circle: winter never deepens
but falls dead upon the ground,
body of the sky whirled
in gray gusts:
from Manitoba stretched brains
of north; heat for heart, head,
in smallest things -- dry socks,
strange breasts, an ounce of sun
glittering above the blue shadows
of the barn.



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