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NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION by JAMES HARRISON

Poet Analysis

First Line: AND MY PUPPY IS OVER HER KIDNEY INFECTION, DIAGNOSED
Last Line: LET HER WOUNDS BECOME MY OWN.
Subject(s): ANGER; ITALY; WISHES; ITALIANS;

And my puppy is over her kidney infection, diagnosed
as chronic & fatal. Saved from the gas chamber. I salute
the technology of antibiotics. All dogs are in particular
as was Christopher Smart's cat Jeoffry. He said drunkenly
near dawn O let her sleep with us during her last days and
let her wounds become my own.



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