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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 SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 27 by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING EMMELINE GRANGERFORD'S 'ODE TO STEPHEN DOLWING BOTS, DEC'D' by SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS THE SCHRECKHORN by THOMAS HARDY SONNET: 86 by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ALEC YEATON'S SON; GLOUCESTER, AUGUST, 1720 by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH THE BREAKING POINT by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET |
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