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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...A RUNNABLE STAG by JOHN DAVIDSON THE NEW YEAR by ALFRED TENNYSON TO DEATH OF HIS LADY by FRANCOIS VILLON TO A CERTAIN CIVILIAN by WALT WHITMAN AGAMEMNON: WELCOME TO AGAMEMNON by AESCHYLUS PHILLIS INAMOROTA by LANCELOT ANDREWES THE CLUE by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES |
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