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NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION by JAMES HARRISON

Poet Analysis

First Line: FOR FIVE DAYS THE MOON WAS RED FROM THE DUST STORM
Last Line: ESTABLISHED A WHITE BLADDER-SHAPED OBJECT IN THE SKY.
Subject(s): ANGER; ITALY; WISHES; ITALIANS;

For five days the moon was red from the dust storm.
It lost its novelty. Then on the sixth the moon
was pink and regained its novelty. On the seventh
it disappeared though reports from Perth, Australia,
established a white bladder-shaped object in the sky.



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