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REVERIE by JAMES HARRISON

Poet Analysis

First Line: HE THINKS OF THE DEAD. BUT THEY
Last Line: A PARTY'S NOISE. BOTTLE CAPS STUCK TO THEM.
Subject(s): DEATH; LOSS; DEAD, THE;
He thinks of the dead. But they
appear as dead -- beef-colored and torn.

There is a great dull music
in the ocean that lapses into seascape.

The girl bends slowly
from the waist. Then stoops.

In high school Brutus
died upon a rubber knife.

Lift the smock. The sun
light stripes her back. A @3fado@1 wails.

In an alley in Cambridge. Beneath
a party's noise. Bottle caps stuck to them.



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