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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SNAKESKIN, by LIZ BEASLEY First Line: Clouds thin into form: a hawk / pulling a tail of rings-beads Last Line: Remembers what it once held. | |||
Clouds thin into form: a hawk pulling a tail of rings -- beads of an abacus, the mathematics of light -- a lengthening spine, snakeskin no longer inhabited. All day I'm giving a name for what isn't there. Yet somewhere we've left our likeness, the hollow shapes of us. Even though the snake has slipped into the shade, the shed skin, deceptively whole, hidden in the sun-flecked grass, remembers what it once held. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE WIDOW; SAPPHICS by ROBERT SOUTHEY OF A FAIR LADY PLAYING WITH A SNAKE by EDMUND WALLER THE CLOAK by ANNA LOUISE BARNEY THE HERITAGE FOREGONE by WILLIAM ROSE BENET THE UNSEEN WORLD by CRAVEN LANGSTROTH BETTS PSALM 91 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE |
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