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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WHEN HE EMERGED, by MARGARET AHO First Line: Exposing through a bottomless | |||
exposing through a bottomless foxhole the kitchen carpet carpet glue linoleum linoleum adhesive ply wood sub floor boards above the cellar ceiling cellar floor geo pitch and plates he'd somehow augered through and stood there on his hind legs, drawing on his gloves: chrome and citron -- I didn't know him. He held a ferule. It was blue for music. He was virgulate himself, leaning toward me: a rust-red slash between worlds. Copyright © Margaret Aho. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...EYE-SHAPED, MOUTH-SHAPED by MARGARET AHO I DREAM I'M LEAVING by MARGARET AHO HOW IT STRIKES A CONTEMPORARY by ROBERT BROWNING A REQUIEM FOR SOLDIERS LOST IN OCEAN TRANSPORTS by HERMAN MELVILLE ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OF AN UNFORTUNATE LADY by ALEXANDER POPE A MORTIFYING MISTAKE by ANNA MARIA PRATT IRIS by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY THE CARPENTER LAD by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON TO HARRIET SHELLEY by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE ON A CLOCK IN A MARKET-PLACE by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE THE BLOSSOMING OF THE SOLITARY DATE-TREE. A LAMENT by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE |
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